num_pages: 433
description: 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. It 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 dealerand 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 9/11and the clock is ticking fast.
language: English
title: Moscow Rules
publisher: Putnam Adult