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03867aam a2200673Ii 4500 001 DCD165A26C3611EB950DD8342DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210211010044 008 210118t20212021nyu b 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1643136208 020 $a 9781643136202 035 $a (OCoLC)1231718035 040 $a IG$ $b eng $e rda $c IG$ $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3622.I37 $b M47 2021 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Vidich, Paul, $e author. 245 14 $a The mercenary : $b a novel / $c Paul Vidich. 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd., $c 2021. 300 $a 274 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world - and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer - code name GAMBIT - has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who defected to the American side. The CIA had never successfully exfiltrated a KGB officer from Moscow, and the top brass do not trust Garin. But they have no other options: GAMBIT's secrets could be the deciding factor in the Cold War. Garin is able to gain the trust of GAMBIT, but remains an enigma. Is he a mercenary acting in self-interest or are there deeper secrets from his past that would explain where his loyalties truly lie? As the date nears for GAMBIT's exfiltration, and with the walls closing in on both of them, Garin begins a relationship with a Russian agent and sets into motion a plan that could compromise everything"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 610 10 $a Soviet Union. $b Komitet gosudarstvennoiÌ bezopasnosti $v Fiction. 610 10 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Intelligence officers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cold War $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Foreign relations $z United States $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Soviet Union $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x History $y 1985-1991 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Moscow (Russia) $v Fiction. 610 17 $a Soviet Union. $b Komitet gosudarstvennoiÌ bezopasnosti. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00515555 610 17 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00536259 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Intelligence officers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975843 650 7 $a Secrecy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110644 651 7 $a Russia (Federation) $z Moscow. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205741 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1985-1991 $2 fast 655 7 $a Action and adventure fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921574 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726640 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Spy fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726748 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726755 655 7 $a Action and adventure fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Spy fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314022155.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20210929010700.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064042.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210402012500.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210211010403.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCD165A26C3611EB950DD8342DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search