Can you ever read too many spy novels? Mark Henshaw's The Fall of Moscow Station (#585) is an excellent title to add to your pile of CIA operative tales. In this case, a traitor among the CIA ranks sets in motion a deadly purge of Russian assets, and the expulsion of all American personnel suspected of espionage from Russian soil, destroying yeas of painstaking work. Alden Maines expected when he agreed to a meet with his Russian contact that he would be richly rewarded for his information, not that bodies would turn up in a German lake, and that he would find himself on the wrong side of the interrogator's table.
The plot moves along briskly, enhanced by the insider knowledge Mark Henshaw brings to his writing craft. Even better, the true action hero of the piece is Kyra Stryker, a CIA analyst with a personal connection to both Alden Maines, and her CIA partner Jonathan Burke, wounded and captured by the GRU while exploring an abandoned base outside Belin. What are the GRU even doing there? Some covert operation is going on, and Kyra is determined to get to the bottom of things so Jon will not have sacrificed himself in vain.
I must admit, I did stay up until the wee hours of the morning to finish this one! So glad Mark Henshaw has a few previous books out there to catch up with.
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