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Moscow X

Damascus Station, Book 2

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A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. Its execution is foiled by a Russian woman with secret loyalties.

CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico - a CIA front since the 1960s - is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple, and their targets are Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife Anna, who is both a banker and an intelligence officer. As they descend further into a Russian world dripping with luxury and rife with gangland violence, Sia and Max's hope may be Anna, who is playing a game of her own.

Careening between the horse ranch and the dark opulence of Saint Petersburg, Moscow X is both a gripping thriller of modern espionage and a daring work of political commentary on the conflict between Washington and Moscow.

©2023 David McCloskey (P)2024 Swift Press Audio Espionage International Mystery & Crime Mystery Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction Russia Thriller Suspense Ranch
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Decent spy story, that feels rooted in research or experience. However it feels like a poor cousin to the author's first novel - Damascus Station. Long exposition about characters childhoods rarely add anything to the story but perhaps are added to make the novel more literary? As usual the love angle is the weakest element of the novel but hopefully no one is reading this novel for that. The worst bit about the audiobook is definitely the narrator's terrible and inconsistent accents. By the end of the novel I'm pretty sure he was reading the Russian characters in an Afrikaans accent. and not a good one at that...Worth a read but prepare to rage against the narrator.

Horrendous narration almost scuppers a decent spy novel

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The narrator was good but his English and South African accents were terrible which I found rather distracting

Quite entertaining but I was ultimately disappointed

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This was slog to get through compared to Damascus Station. The characters were unlikeable so I didn’t really care what happened to them. The accents were a struggle!

Not Damascus Station

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I was captivated by the plot and the authenticity of the characters. The twists and turns of the plot we're surprising but rang true. Masterful.

An outstanding spy novel

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Nothing. Just want to read more by this author and on similar subjects as this book

How complex but simple the plot was

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