Gabriel Allon #8
Putnam
August 2008
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Featuring: Gabriel Allon
ISBN: 159722703X EAN: 9781597227032 Kindle: B0010SEMSM Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. Heβs playing by Moscow rules now.
This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealerβand he is about to deliver Russiaβs most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11βand the clock is ticking fast.
Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the Eastβand Silvaβs finest novel yet.
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