Russian Affairs: The Invisible War
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A murder in Moscow. Deadly microchips. The Russian mafia.
Robert Tudor, a businessman with a murky past, leads a quiet life with his wife on the C te d'Azur - until a call from Moscow shatters the idyll. His longtime friend David Sinclair has found one of his lovers brutally murdered in a room at a Moscow luxury hotel, and now sits in the notorious Lefortovo Prison.
Robert travels to Moscow to stand by David - but also to salvage a business deal gone wrong. He is soon drawn into the crosshairs of rival intelligence services: the FSB, GRU, CIA, Mossad and Ukraine's HUR are locked in a ruthless struggle over cutting-edge microchips that could tip the balance of the war in Ukraine. There is another deadly threat besides: the Russian mafia wants a piece of the lethal microchip trade, and leaves a bloody trail through the city. Mysterious actors threaten not only Robert's interests, but his life. His only ally is the brilliant lawyer Anastasiya Yegorova. But even she does not know the whole truth.
In his topical spy novel, Phileas Frost portrays an invisible war - the war of the intelligence services.
Murder, love, betrayal, friendship, loyalty - a dangerous game holds Moscow in its grip.
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Moscow, the city that never sleeps, becomes the stage for a dangerous game with no rules.
Russian Affairs draws the reader into a mesmerising metropolis. Moscow is glamorous and cosmopolitan, steeped in history yet hyper-modern, warm-hearted and enigmatic all at once - and the epicentre of intelligence activity the world over.
Phileas Frost tells his story with precision and cinematic flair, and a keen eye for human idiosyncrasy. His characters move, at times, through moral grey zones, driven by self-serving ambition, fickle loyalty and personal calculation.
Readers can expect a read that is every bit as thrilling as it is entertaining - seasoned with the author's dry wit.
In the background simmers the conflict in Ukraine - not as a political statement, but as a human drama between two peoples bound far more closely together than politics cares to admit.
Russian Affairs - an explosive spy novel of real literary ambition, one that stands out refreshingly from the mainstream of its genre.
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Phileas Frost knows Russia, and the Russian mentality, from years of personal experience. His deep engagement with the country's society, culture and singular character makes him one of its most unconventional experts.
His profound knowledge of Russia's organisations, political structures and inner workings can be felt on every page of Russian Affairs - The Invisible War. Written with extraordinary attention to detail, authenticity and an insider's eye, it is a spy novel that gets under your skin - gripping, atmospheric, relentlessly suspenseful.
Russia has many faces. Phileas Frost shows them all.
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