From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing - and always dangerous - USSR in the mid-1980s.Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the...
Moscow, 1985. The Soviet is in the last stages of decline, but remains still very dangerous. In this evershifting landscape, a senior KGB officer - code name GAMBIT - has approached the CIA with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer. GAMBIT's secrets could be the deciding factor in the Cold War. Garin is able to gain the trust of GAMBIT. Is he a mercenary acting in selfinterest or are there deeper secrets from his past that would explain where his loyalties truly lie?
