– Dwyer Murphy is the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads. Vidich pays close attention to every person who moves through the pages of this vivid, compelling book. They're supposed to pull off a daring operation that has never been done before in the history of the FBI. All of this means that no one can be trusted, and no one can be trusted at all. And the CIA wants someone who used to be a defector to lead the team. He needs to be taken out of Moscow, which has never been done by the CIA. One of the top KGB officers has been talking to the CIA about defecting. The Mercenary takes us back to the last years of the Soviet Union, when both sides were suspicious of each other and every interaction seemed to be a plan. This year, Paul Vidich comes out with a real stunner, with a well-researched and heartfelt look at one of the most important people in the world. These are some of the best spy novels written today. CrimeReads Senior Editor Molly Odintz says this: Paul Vidich, The Mercenary (Pegasus) The two play an epic game of cat-and-mouse with gasp-worthy consequences. As soon as an underling notices a suspicious use of data, things start to heat up. She sends sensitive information to her Russian handlers when she's not crushing the competition for her social media company employer or being the keynote speaker at yet another conference on work/life balance. Then, 12 years later, she's one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. As a child in 2006, Julia Lerner is an orphan from Moscow who has a computer science degree. Kathy Wang, Impostor Syndrome (Custom House)Īs a side dish, there is a lot of sarcastic humor and fierce feminist activism in this book.
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