Death in a Promised Land
- ISBN-10
- 0671866486
- ISBN-13
- 9780671866488
- Series
- Death in a Promised Land
- Category
- Defectors
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Beyond Words/Atria Books
- Author
- Robert Andrews
Description
"A field operative still recovering from the last "hot" wound of the Cold War, Sims enters the first skirmish in a new struggle when a post-Cold War anachronism, an Eastern European defector, runs right into him in a metro station within the D. C. Beltway. Former Soviet agent Miloslav Valek is seeking asylum - and he's willing to trade information for it. Sims's job is to find out what Valek knows, and what he finds both stuns and horrifies him: an explosive secret, code-named MURKIN, linking James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr., with the KGB - and the FBI with both." "Valek's defection sets off a high-stakes secret war in which old enemies find themselves allied. For the Russians, Valek's information threatens the vital plan that stands between them and starvation. For a ruthless American businessman, Valek could scuttle the greatest business coup since the Louisiana Purchase. For the bureaucrats of Washington's espionage establishment, the renegade spy promises to unravel a fabric of lies that took them a quarter of a century to weave." "Sims is ordered to close the file on MURKIN once and for all." "But for Bradford Sims, Murkin is a crisis of conscience as well as career: Sims continues the hunt."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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