Icon: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

A NEW YORK Occasions BESTSELLER • From your master of the book of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow’s headlines.

It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president rests powerless in Moscow as his nation is usually wracked by famine and inflation, criminal offense and problem, and seething hordes from the unemployed roam the streets.

For the West, Russia is a basket case. But also for Igor Komarov, one- about Icon: A Novel time army sergeant that has risen to command from the right-wing UPF party, the chaos was created to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his stunning voice bands out on the airwaves offering the roiling people hope at last-not only for law, order, and prosperity, but also for restoring the lost greatness of their property.

Who’s this man with the golden tongue who’s so quickly getting the promise of the Russia reborn? A record stolen from party head office and smuggled to Washington and London sends problem chills through those who remember days gone by, for this Dark Manifesto is pure Mein Kampf inside a country with terrifying parallels towards the Germany of the Weimar Republic.

Officially the Western can do nothing, but in secret a group of elder statesmen sends the only one who can expose the reality about Komarov in to the heart from the inferno. Jason Monk, ex-CIA and ‘the greatest damn agent-runner we ever endured,’ had sworn he would never return to Moscow, but one name changes his brain. Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB official who tortured and murdered four of Monk’s brokers after they have been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is currently Komarov’s head of security.

Monk includes a dual mission: to stop Komarov, whatever it takes, also to prepare just how for an icon worth the Russian people. But he has a personal mission as well: to settle the final score with Grishin. To do this he must stay alive–and the makes allied against him are ruthless, the time frighteningly short . .

Praise for Icon

“Vintage Forsyth, intricate, exact and gripping.”-The New York Times Book Review

“Another solid performance by a writer who understands exactly what he’s about, and who right here catalyzes narrative with another memorable protagonist, the stealthy and daring Monk.”-Publishers Regular (starred review)

“One of is own best works for a long period, which gives an all-too-real look at a chilling new millennium.”-The Weekend Times, London