Moscow X: A Novel
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4.4 • 334 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A daring CIA plot threatens chaos in the Kremlin. Its execution is foiled by a Russian woman with secret loyalties.
CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin’s moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max’s family business in Mexico—a CIA front since the 1960s—is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple, and their targets are Vadim, Putin’s private banker, and his wife, Anna, who is both a banker and an intelligence officer. As they descend further into a Russian world dripping with luxury and rife with gangland violence, Sia and Max’s hope may be Anna, who is playing a game of her own. Careening between the horse ranch and the dark opulence of Saint Petersburg, Moscow X is both a gripping thriller of modern espionage and a daring work of political commentary on the conflict between Washington and Moscow.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This sexy spy thriller puts the heat back into the Cold War. As Vladimir Putin’s criminal empire extends into thoroughbred-horse breeding and cryptocurrencies, CIA officers Max and Sia go deep undercover in Russia and cozy up to Vadim, the Russian leader’s private banker. The ensuing game of cat and mouse pits everyone involved against each other as they negotiate conflicting personal and political loyalties. Author David McCloskey, a former CIA analyst, evokes serious anxiety in his interrogation scenes, focusing on the victims’ psychological states as much as their physical realities. Like John le Carré or Mick Herron, McCloskey is interested in capturing the mundane bureaucracy of international espionage alongside its more salacious realities. A kinetic blend of simmering tension, sex, and sudden violence, Moscow X is a real pageturner.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant and intricate spy novel
Very well written. Suspense had my hands sweating. The complex plot was brilliant. Highly recommend this book.
Convoluted throughout
This novel has too many characters and too many situations. The book jumps around confusingly from city to city, setting to setting, person to person. Is it a financial thriller, a spy thriller, a revenge thriller, a geopolitical thriller, or a horse racing thriller? Yes, horse racing. Everybody’s got an agenda and almost everybody’s corrupt or controlled by egos, or bosses with egos. A lot of the characters are constantly on the defensive. Too long, too dull, too convoluted.
$9.66 on kindle
Just purchased this book on kindle for $9.66. Gave it a mixed rating cause I just bought it and haven't read it yet, but it's $5. Cheaper for the same book.