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Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to
Russia, where he finds that, in terms of
spycraft, even he has something to learn.
He’s 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 dealer—and he is about to deliver
Russia’s 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 9/11—and
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 East—and Silva’s finest novel yet.
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