The Shakeout
- Authors: Ken Follett
- Series: Book 1 in the Piers Roper series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
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- Rating: 4 based on 10 reviews
- Release Date: January 1, 1975
- Print length: 157 pages (Hardcover)
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About the book
Roper is an industrial spy - a brutally ambitious and effective infiltrator, working for a man known only as "Palmer". He takes on a rival spy network to manipulate a major takeover. But he finds more than he bargained for among the bitter politics and infighting. And all his plans are threatened when one his chosen pawns, a beautiful and clever woman named Ann, break down his defences and he falls in love.