The Seventh Floor
From the Bestselling Author of DAMASCUS STATION and MOSCOW X
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'A rare combination of experience and talent' Mick Herron
'His best yet ... Superb, addictively suspenseful, politics/tradecraft accurate, scary, complex ... A newmaestro of espionage thrillers'Simon Sebag Montefiore
'A John le Carré level game of cat and mouse. It could have only been written by someone like David McCloskey, who has an insider's sharp angle' David Baldacci
THE THIRD NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR***DAMASCUS STATION ('One of the best spy thrillers in years' THE TIMES) AND ***SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** MOSCOW X
ALL YOUR LIFE YOU'RE CIA.
THEN YOU'RE NOT.
A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procter's central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of CIA.
As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter's closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow's mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States.
Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.
*****FIVE STAR READER REVIEWS:
'Great spy thriller that is absolutely riveting in its intensity'
'David McCloskey's novels are only getting better'
'The best yet ... Hard to put down'
'Best work to date! No shortage of intrigue, twists, characters that are real, written by someone in the know'
'A thoroughly exciting read which had me dashing to its conclusion'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Suspicions of a Russian mole circulating in the upper ranks of the CIA lie at the center of McCloskey's middling sequel to Damascus Station, which reunites former spy Artemis Aphrodite Proctor with her onetime subordinate, Sam Joseph. Proctor, whose impulsive behavior has long alarmed her bosses, has just been fired, in part for engineering a foiled mission that led to Joseph's capture and torture by the Russians. Now freed in a spy swap but sidelined by the CIA as damaged goods, Joseph approaches Proctor with his worry that a Russian spy has infiltrated the agency's C-suite. Currently working as a wrangler at an alligator amusement park outside Orlando, Fla., Proctor examines the list of possible moles and agrees to help. Motivated by both patriotism and revenge, Proctor and Joseph set out to unmask the spy in a raucous search that stretches from the Las Vegas Strip to the French countryside. McCloskey, a former CIA analyst, layers the novel with the inside details of tradecraft that only a writer of his background could provide. The plot, however, feels more labored than in previous Proctor adventures, with long, saggy diversions that dilute the suspense. Though not without its charms, this is a marked step down from its predecessors.
