Despite the end of the Cold War, espionage agents around the world are up to something--in Moscow, a Soviet computer hacker economist has plugged his computer into the KGB's, in Riga, an assassin receives important instructions--that could revive the war. 50,000 first printing.
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Flannery (The Kremlin Conspiracy, Eagles Fly), who also writes as David Hagberg (Twister, The Capsule), bravely essays an elaborately complicated spy story in the disarray of the former Soviet states in the near, terribly confused future. Real-life events have already left Flannery's complex puzzler a little behind, but not so much as to spoil a good moles-in-the- spyworks story full of intriguing, fully drawn characters from both sides of the old cold war. Most of the espionage has to do with Albert Tyson, the President's acting national security advisor. Despite a flawless, fast-moving rise to the top of the intelligence community, Tyson has begun to look a bit rotten. FBI agents have uncovered Tyson's sexual liaison with a KGB agent. Is he passing secrets to her? Is he loyal or is he being set up? In Moscow the top CIA man at the embassy is picking up bits of a story having to do with an imminent betrayal of the US by someone close to the President. Does this have anything to do with Tyson? Certainly the Russians are as meddlesome as ever, scooping up American contracts and torturing them as if it were the 1950's. But nothing is straightforward. Agents of the old directories of the KGB are keeping secrets from one another, as are the FBI and the CIA, and intelligence agency employees are stepping into each other's traps and plots with fatal results. While everybody's attention is on Tyson, somewhere in Moscow a computer operator is hacking his way into the KGB's financial records, where lie the answers to everyone's questions. The setup is long, and the extraordinarily large cast is at times difficult to keep straight, but it's worth sticking with for the clever and thoroughly believable painting of interagency warfare, diverted loyalties, and political confusion in our time. Quite good. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"Not only do Flannery's spy thrillers have the ring of truth, sometimes they become truth. Let's hope Moving Targets remains fiction." --Dean Ing
"Flannery writes one step ahead of the headlines." --Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram
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"Flannery writes one step ahead of the headlines." --Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram
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This book was published as the Post Cold War world was becoming a fact of life. Certainly, the story of die-hards in the KGB wanting to hang on to the old ways isn't exactly new, but it still makes for compelling human drama. A variety of characters is introduced, each of them truly human, in their own ways as opposed to being cardboard characters that are to be knocked down or left standing when the shooting starts.
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I have been reading books by Flannery/Hagberg for years now and it is amazing watching an author improve with time.
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THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY WAS FIVE AND A HALF BLOCKS NORTH OF the White House on 16th Street between L and M streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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