num_pages: 300
description: Former CIA station chief Mark Sava has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku, Azerbaijan…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on his life in the hallowed halls of the national library. Hours later, Sava receives cryptic photos that lead him to believe his friend John Decker has been kidnapped.He teams up with ex–CIA spy and former girlfriend Daria Buckingham, and the two soon find themselves being chased by Chinese intelligence agents through the underworlds of Turkmenistan and Iran, trying to save Decker and solve the puzzle behind a secret conflict that has the US and Iran tumbling headlong into war.
language: English
title: The Leveling
publisher: Thomas & Mercer