Moscow Rules

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Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. Hes playing by Moscow rules now. It is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth & choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin & where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost & 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 & deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer?and he is about to deliver Russias most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time & place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11?and the clock is ticking fast. Filled with rich prose & breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment & a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East?and Silvas finest novel yet.