By Brian Freemantle
In the final days of the KGB, a nefarious plot opposed to the us threatens to reignite the chilly struggle
The Soviet Union is in turmoil. With the election of Gorbachev have come new principles approximately freedom, compassion, and openness - rules that go away no position for the darkish machinations of the KGB. Reform is coming to the Soviet intelligence provider, until Victor Ivanovich Kazin can cease it.
Kazin is among the outdated defend, and an agent does not continue to exist 3 many years within the KGB with out being relentless. he's a liar, a cheat, a backstabber - and he's happy with it. To oppose this most recent wave of reform, Kazin has deliberate an audacious operation concentrating on the CIA, utilizing a mole deep inside of Langley. it's going to require each ounce of his crafty and cruelty, and Kazin by no means fails.
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Because they don’t know: they’ll never be able to know. You’re properly trained … a professional. For them it was always going to be a monumental upheaval, changing their lives, just like that …’ Galina stopped, snapping her fingers. She took up again: ‘I was prepared for that monumental upheaval: to help them and to explain as much as I could to them and maybe in time – a very long time – to make them understand you weren’t the traitor to your country they would believe you to be …’ She stopped, swallowing heavily from her drink, needing it.
It’s too long ago for anything to be left between us,’ persisted Malik. Was it important, to make such an effort? If Kazin were going to have conceded any sort of response – the proper sort of response – it would have come by now. ‘I don’t understand,’ protested Kazin, who did but who was enjoying the other man’s efforts to rebuild bridges across divides too wide ever to be crossed again. Malik sighed determinedly. He said: ‘Whatever happened, happened. It’s past. Gone …’ He hesitated and said: ‘Olga and I were very happy, afterwards.
It had been one of Yuri’s favourite restaurants, with a table always available because of whose son he was. ’ ‘And I’ve got lamb! ’ What were the Muslems going to do when they’d eaten all the sheep in the world, wondered Yuri. Camel maybe? ’ said the woman coquettishly. ‘We can talk about this and that,’ said Yuri, another remark for his own benefit. The woman misunderstood, of course, and laughed. Victor Kazin savoured the intrigue he was initiating and was sure of winning. He felt like one of the jugglers at the State Circus, keeping more and more coloured balls in the air until it was difficult to see how many there were aloft at any one time.