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"…A pleasure to read…" Elaine Budd, Hartford Courant

"…Pure le Carre - that only impassioned idealists can save us from the old cold warriors, CIA sleazebags, former KGB hacks and even Israeli Mossad agents who refuse to hang up their guns and accept peace in our time." Bill Kent, Washington Post Book World

"…The chicanery, sycophancy, malice, corruption, heartlessness, jockeying for position, self-absorption, arrogance and cluelessness of the powerful are convincingly enough rendered to confirm our worst suspicions." George Stade, New York Times

"…Clearly familiar with the Washington, D.C. scene and nearby ruralia, where he now lives, erstwhile globetrotter Farnsworth sets key scenes with authenticity and even elan in Siberia, the Mideast, Switzerland and Paris…" Potomac Review

"…It ultimately satisfies, largely because its treatment of alchemy as a scientific reality is downright fascinating." Amazon.com
"…The twisted plot, venal governments and Mideast landscape glitter like the real thing." Publishers Weekly.
"I read your book and I can honestly say it is the best I have read in a long time. It was not only very well written but the story was so exciting I could hardly put it down and the characters were solid and believable…" Harrison Shaffer Jr, retired U.S. Information Agency officer, Arvada, Colorado

"I couldn't stop reading…the story was enthralling and gripping…" Hilary Tham, poet, Arlington, Va.

Biography

Clyde Farnsworth is a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Most of his career on the Times was overseas. He covered Swinging Britain, civil war in Cyprus, rumbles in Eastern Europe, theWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, social unrest in France, myriad monetary crises, including the death of the gold exchange standard. In Washington he was the foreign economic correspondent focusing on trade wars with Japan, and the Latin American debt crisis.

The sense of place in this unusual thriller derives from his wide travels in Europe, Russia, North Africa and Israel, including time in the kibbutz G'vat Brenner. The idea for SHADOW WARS originated in Israel with rumors that one of the new Russian immigrants, a brilliant nuclear physicist, while working at an atom smasher in Siberia, had devised a process for turning base metal into gold. Farnsworth could never find that physicist. So he created him as Dmitri Sherbatov, key figure in this   novel, whose secret gift to the Bank of Israel's coffers has unforeseen consequences on innocents - and the not so innocent -- at home and abroad.

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