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Moscow Sting
Written by Alex Dryden
Narrated by Simon Vance
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers-information that only Finn's widow, Anna, knows. But the former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for love vanished with their child shortly after Finn's death.
Adrian isn't the only one eager to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so sensitive that the KGB are willing to kill again to protect it-a chase that has piqued the interest of the major intelligence agencies, be they government-sponsored or private, around the world. Though Medvedev has assumed the presidency, everyone knows that Putin continues to pull all the strings. Just what is Russia concealing beneath its immense new oil wealth and veil of political cordiality?
Anna holds the key to unlocking the secrets of her motherland. Taken to America for protection and information, the former Russian agent faces her greatest test: to ensure her freedom and protect her child, she must uncover the full truth before anyone else-even as friend and foe both set her in their sights.
Moving from Paris to New York, the Kremlin to the American Southwest, Moscow Sting is an absorbing and timely tale of intrigue, betrayal, fatal lies, and complex truths, told with the authentic detail and chilling insight of an experienced insider.
Adrian isn't the only one eager to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so sensitive that the KGB are willing to kill again to protect it-a chase that has piqued the interest of the major intelligence agencies, be they government-sponsored or private, around the world. Though Medvedev has assumed the presidency, everyone knows that Putin continues to pull all the strings. Just what is Russia concealing beneath its immense new oil wealth and veil of political cordiality?
Anna holds the key to unlocking the secrets of her motherland. Taken to America for protection and information, the former Russian agent faces her greatest test: to ensure her freedom and protect her child, she must uncover the full truth before anyone else-even as friend and foe both set her in their sights.
Moving from Paris to New York, the Kremlin to the American Southwest, Moscow Sting is an absorbing and timely tale of intrigue, betrayal, fatal lies, and complex truths, told with the authentic detail and chilling insight of an experienced insider.
Author
Alex Dryden
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British writer who worked for the British security services. He has had extensive first-hand experience with Russia for many years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Red to Black and Moscow Sting. The Blind Spy is his third novel.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An enjoyable read and an interesting spy story, not the best I have ever read though. It does seem to leave a number of sub-plots open for future use but most of the sub-plots/characters were ended abruptly. There is a lot of detail in housing, location and character but not enough detail in how the story progresses and then all of a sudden there is a fire-fight and some are dead.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alex Dryden's 'Moscow Sting' is a 'cat & mouse' spy thriller that's pretty well plotted but suffers from a couple unrealistic key characters and patches of stilted dialogue. It's a good novel, though, and the descriptions of the field work and trade craft seem solid.The plot is complex and tough to describe without giving it all away, but the short explanation is that there's a beautiful female ex-KGB colonel living in hiding in rural France with her young son under the protection of the French intelligence service. Her husband, a spy for the Brits, had been poisoned by the Russians after having 'run' an agent who was close to Putin. Everybody wants to know who the agent was (the Russians, so they can kill him, the Americans, Brits, American contractors, etc. so they can continue to 'mine' him), so they're all searching for his murdered controller's widow. She's located by an American intelligence contractor and spirited away to the US, and the story continues as they try to extract information from her while others are attempting to find her. The detailed plot is much more complicated and fans of the genre will enjoy the chess-like moves by the various players.My only real problem with 'Moscow Sting' was with the lead character, Burt, from the American contractor. He's larger-than-life, both literally and figuratively, seemingly omniscient, and connected to the 'official' intelligence offices in ways that I can't imagine being possible. His dialogue is full of God-like pronouncements and the size and power of his organization seems limitless. I may be totally off base, but I can't see interactions between state-based intelligence services and those of the private sector behaving as described. The 'damaged' ex-CIA operative, Logan, who is a central figure in the action is likewise a bit high on the unbelievability scale, but his failings are less obvious and more along the lines of behavior that's not consistent with someone of his reputation.Other than that, I liked the way that Anna responded to the challenges thrown at her and I particularly liked the descriptions of her thought processes as she was plotting her movements. It was truly a 'cat & mouse' story, but the unique part is that the mouse seemed to call the shots in many ways. 'Moscow Sting' is certainly worth a read. Anna is a decent character that is a rarity in that she's ex-KGB but fairly likable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I really wish I knew this was not the first in the series as I would have liked to have gotten to know Finn, sounds like a good character. The book was ok as far as Russian spy novels go but nothing special.