Moscow, the Cold War, 1961. Stalin has been dead for eight years. With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's international prestige is at an all-time high. Former CIA agent Francis 'Frank' Weeks, the most notorious of the defectors to the Soviet Union, is about to publish his memoirs, and what h
Defectors
β Scribed by Joseph Kanon
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Edition
- First Atria books hardcover edition;US
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1501121413
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β¦ Synopsis
A USA TODAY "Must Read" Book
A New York Post "Must Read" Book
"Fascinating...[Kanon] is a master of the genre...[The] roller-coaster plot will keep you guessing until the final page." βThe Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage and Leaving Berlin comes a riveting novel about two brothers bound by blood, divided by loyalty.
In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank's motives suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older...
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