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When a body with Russian military tattoos is found floating in a lake outside Berlin, the CIA immediately takes notice. The body is identified as the director of Russia's Foundation for Advanced Nuclear Research, who is also a CIA asset. And the murder coincides with the defection of one of the CIA's upper-level officers.
Alden Maines is jaded after years in the CIA cleaning up the messes of incompetent political appointees in dangerous foreign posts. When he is passed over for promotion, Maines crosses the Rubicon and decides to cash in as a double agent for Russia.
But while Maines dreams of off-shore bank accounts and a new secret life, Arkady Lavrov of Russia's intelligence service (GRU) has other plans. He immediately announces Maines's defection to the world and then pumps him for every last ounce of intel, including the names of every agent in the CIA's Moscow Station and their assets working in the Kremlin. But why would Lavrov burn an asset whose intel and access could pay dividends for years to come? What is Lavrov up to?
Traveling from Langley to Berlin and finally Moscow—working black without backup—analyst Jonathan Burke and agent Kyra Stryker are up against their most formidable enemy yet, and their lives and the fate of America's most important assets in the New Cold War hang in the balance.
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- ISBN: 9781501100321
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December 21, 2015
In Henshaw’s fine third spy thriller featuring CIA officers Jon Burke and Kyra Stryker (after 2014’s Cold Shot), disgruntled CIA agent Alden Maines decides to offer his services as a double agent to Russia, but rather than paying him money, the Russians simply kidnap him in Berlin and extract information the old-fashioned way, by smashing the bones of his hand into tiny bits with a hammer. Meanwhile, Gen. Arkady Lavrov, the chairman of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, is attempting to sell electromagnetic-pulse weapons to Syria. The CIA needs to stop this sale and retrieve Maines so he can no longer divulge U.S. secrets. With Jon out of commission after a botched mission, Kyra shows she’s a real force by coming up with crazy, dangerous plans to achieve these objectives, despite resistance from her CIA bosses. Readers will hope the appealing Kyra will continue to play as active a role in future installments. Agent: Jason Yarn, Paradigm Agency. -
January 1, 2016
Seemingly angered by a station chief appointed primarily because of his contributions to political campaigns, CIA agent Alden Maines goes over to the Russians. He's expecting to become rich, but the Russians stiff him. But they also mystify the CIA by informing them of his defection, thereby limiting Maines' longer-term intelligence value. Still, Maines has identified every CIA agent and asset in Russia, and they are all instantly expelled. Moscow station has been gutted. Intrepid CIA agent Kyra Stryker (Cold Shot, 2014) thinks Russia is selling advanced technology to U.S. enemies, and if she is to thwart the plan, she must enter Russia without a single ally. Even worse, Arkady Lavrov, the brutal merchant of high-tech weapons for Russia's GRU, thinks Kyra is a prize worth taking. Henshaw's 11 years as a CIA analyst make parts of this novel gripping and plausible for spy fans. But he also throws in a U.S. naval engagement with China, the Battle of the Taiwan Strait, and an air strike on Venezuela (to erase an Iranian nuke-building lab) that seem to belong in an altogether different, less-realistic thriller.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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