Press Release

Department of State Author Anne Kimbell Publishes Spy Novel

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - March 27, 2001 -- Anne Kimbell, who has served the United States in Embassies in a number of countries, has just published a new spy novel set in Tunisia called "To Catch a Spy". The book begins when Rick Harrison an ex-CIA operative, gets a call from an old contact to make a quick trip to Tunisia to check out a suspected plot to export poison gasses to renegade Arab countries. The contact knows that Rick has just received a call from his ex-wife that his eighteen-year-old son is missing somewhere in the same country. Reluctant to return to a job he no longer relishes, he takes the assignment anyway, hoping to locate his son. He is helped in his search by Janine Simms, a beautiful and tough CIA operative. They uncover a plot in the deserts of Tunisia, which implicates one of America's top industrialists and threatens the security of Africa and the Arab World.

Ms. Kimbell is the author of" How to Communicate with Difficult People" and articles for The Christian Science Monitor and the Foreign Service Journal. She served in Tunisia under the auspices of the Department of State. She now lives in Laguna Beach, California and in Westcliffe Colorado, where she is the Artistic Director of the Crystal Mountain Center for the Performing Arts. " To Catch A Spy" is available through Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and through bookstores everywhere. Ms. Kimbell can be reached on the web through www.AnneKimbell.com.

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