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Meet the author: Catherine Merridale

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Moscow might not be top of your travel itinerary at the moment, but with crime fiction and historian Catherine Merridale you can safely travel there in your imagination in Moscow Underground. The setup is fascinating. As he consolidates power, Josef Stalin wants to show the…
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The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey

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Third in former CIA analyst David McCloskey’s riveting series of espionage thrillers, The Seventh Floor will grab your attention and hang onto it until the last page. Not only is the story a hair-raising exploration of international misdeeds, its underlying theme is how loyalty to…
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The Collaborators by Michael Idov

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Michael Idov’s firecracker espionage thriller starts with an unforgettable scene. A commercial airliner flying from Istanbul to Riga, Latvia, is intercepted over Belarus by a Russian MiG-29, which dogs the plane just 50 yards portside. In case anyone doubted its intent, the MiG speeds forward,…
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Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont

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There seems to have been a spike in the number of ex-intelligence officers writing espionage novels recently – and they know what they’re talking about. Among them are David McCloskey and IS Berry in America, and James Wolff and Charles Beaumont in Britain. Dark Arena…
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Moscow X by David McCloskey

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Two years ago, David McCloskey hit it big with his debut espionage novel, Damascus Station. Hordes of readers, intelligence professionals, and critics alike praised its realism and lively, timely plot. Now, he has a new book out, and it’s even better. “The new John Le…
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