Throw Away the Key
A Novel
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年7月14日
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- ¥2,600
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- 予約注文
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- ¥2,600
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A former CIA locksmith turned glorified janitor is haunted by a botched Cold War operation with ramifications that extend to the present day.
New York Times bestselling author Jason M. Hough pens a fast-paced thriller packed full of action, perfect for fans of Alma Katsu and David McCloskey.
Lars Bergman is no ordinary janitor. He’s the CIA’s locksmith.
Formerly part of the CIA’s infamous Surreptitious Entry Team, Lars is now responsible for every padlock, safe, and secure door across the CIA headquarters. He’s never met a lock he couldn’t pick…except one, which he tried and failed to open during a botched mission in Warsaw at the end of the Cold War.
Cruising toward retirement, Lars’s life is upended when a senior CIA official dies and he’s called upon to open the safe in her office. Inside the safe is a clue only Lars would notice, left by someone he’d worked with in his heyday. As he investigates, Lars soon realizes that his failed Warsaw operation has come back to haunt him and perhaps give him another chance at picking the one lock that’s ever eluded him.
What Lars doesn’t realize is that what the lock is protecting could have dire ramifications for the organization he has spent his whole adult life safekeeping.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An unassuming agent's matchless lockpicking skills are the only thing that can solve a grand conspiracy in this well-oiled espionage thriller from Hough (Instinct). Lars Bergman was once a CIA staff burglar brought on black ops to break into anything that required a key. Now near retirement, he's been reduced to a humdrum position updating combination codes and opening gym lockers. When he's summoned to unlock the safe of Deputy Director Irene Johannsen, who has gone missing, it's a surprise to everyone that the safe turns out to contain only a receipt and a photo of Irene and Lars from his field agent days, before an off-the-books operation in Warsaw went awry. After Irene turns up dead, Lars reenters the spy game. Irene's enciphered receipt leads him back to Poland, and then to a Swiss bank, where he steals the very briefcase that stymied him on his Warsaw assignment all those years ago. As the treachery deepens and the CIA turns on him, Lars uses his skills against his own agency. Hough describes the locksmith's art in fascinating detail, ratcheting up the tension as Lars's unique talents supplement his rusty spy tradecraft. This taut adventure calls to mind the best of James Grady.
