Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established
himself as one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue
and espionage--"a worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth
and John le Carré" (Chicago Sun-Times)--and Gabriel Allon as "one of
the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series" (The Philadelphia
Inquirer).
Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds
that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing
by Moscow rules now.
It is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash
in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power
resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of
the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new
generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to
challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global
investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that
empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an
arms dealer--and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated
weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the
delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since
9/11--and the clock is ticking fast.
Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is
at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the
new threats rising to the East--and Silva's finest novel yet.
