Defectors: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

The bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and Istanbul Passage “continues to show that he’s up there with the very best…of spy thriller writers” (THE DAYS, UK) with this “interesting” (The Washington Post) novel about two brothers destined by bloodstream but divided by loyalty.

In 1949, Frank Weeks, agent of the newly formed CIA, was uncovered being a Communist spy and fled the united states to vanish behind the Iron Drape. Right now, twelve years later on, he has created his memoirs, a KGB- accepted task about Defectors: A Novel almost certain to be a global bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come quickly to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It’s a reunion Simon both dreads and dreams about.

The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank’s motives believe, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older brother, proves irresistible. And initially Frank continues to be Frank-the same charm, the same jokes, the same relationship of devotion that transcends ideology.

Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, capable of treachery and positively doing work for “the service.” He finds himself dragged in to the middle of Frank’s brand-new scheme, caught between your KGB as well as the CIA inside a fatal kitty and mouse game that only one of the brothers will probably survive.

“A finely paced Chilly War thriller with [Kanon’s] usual flair for atmospheric fine detail, intriguing people, and suspenseful actions” (Library Journal), Defectors needs us towards the heart of a world of secrets, where even the people we realize best can’t be trusted and murder is merely collateral damage.