num_pages: 480
description: Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife Chiara and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov who saved Gabriels life in Moscow has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise.Do you know what we do with traitors Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing Gabriel. Promise me I won't end up in an unmarked grave.In the days to come Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world's most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London to the shores of Lake Como to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich and finally to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same.
language: English
title: The Defector
publisher: Putnam Adult