num_pages: 288
description: From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changingand always dangerousUSSR in the mid-1980s.Moscow 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline but remain opaque to the rest of the worldand still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape a senior KGB officercode name GAMBIThas approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer Alex Garin a former KGB officer who defected to the American side.The CIA had never successfully exfiltrated a KGB officer from Moscow and the top brass do not trust Garin. But they have no other GAMBIT's secrets could be the deciding factor in the Cold War.Garin is able to gain the trust of GAMBIT but remains an enigma. Is he a mercenary acting in self-interest or are there deeper secrets from his past that would explain where his loyalties truly lie? As the date nears for GAMBITs exfiltration and with the walls closing in on both of them Garin begins a relationship with a Russian agent and sets into motion a plan that could compromise everything.
language: English
title: The Mercenary
publisher: Pegasus Crime