Los Angeles Times
“This is a thriller in the best tradition by an author who knows the Middle East like the back of his hand”
BBC News
“The plotting is beautiful.”
Library Journal (Starred Review)
“The unfolding of the plot within a plot are handled … with skill and a sure sense of the dramatic.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“It’s suspense all the way through.”
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At the age of 21, Howard Kaplan was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm to London.
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Boston Film Festival 2017 In Pictures
Photos from the Boston Film Festival
Arrested by the KBG in Russia
When I was 22, I walked along a memorized route from the Hotel Metropole, where I was staying, through nearby Red Square and soon, on a narrow street adjacent to the square, approached an apartment door.
Photos from set in Casablanca
Photos from the set in Casablanca