The Helsinki Affair

eBook, 368 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2023 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-1-6680-1476-9
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4 stars (1 review)

IT’S THE CASE OF AMANDA’S LIFETIME, BUT SOLVING IT WILL REQUIRE HER TO BETRAY ANOTHER SPY—WHO JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE HER FATHER.

SPYING IS THE FAMILY BUSINESS. Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world—but one hot summer day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the ultimate chance to prove herself.

The defector warns of the imminent assassination of a US senator. Though Amanda takes the warning seriously, her superiors don’t. Twenty-four hours later, the senator is dead. And the assassination is just the beginning.

Corporate blackmail, covert manipulation, corrupt oligarchs: the Kremlin has found a dangerous new way to wage war. Teaming up with Kath Frost, a fearless older woman and legendary spy, Amanda races from Rome to London, …

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Supposedly like John le Carré but with more female spies

4 stars

The author's goal was to write something like John le Carré but with more female spies. I haven't read enough le Carré to judge the resemblance. Amanda Cole is a CIA agent, the daughter of CIA agent Charlie Cole. Posted in Rome, she interviews a Russian walk-in who claims that Senator Bob Vogel is about to be assassinated on a trip to Egypt. The station chief tells her that everything is too fantastic to believe, suggests Russia is testing them with fake info, and orders her to do nothing. Of course, Bob Vogel is killed in Egypt in exactly the way the walk-in predicts. Amanda starts on operations to make use of the source.

When Vogel's chief of staff goes through the papers on his desk, he has extensive notes on meetings with a Russian oligarch. Meetings that she knows nothing about, and she knows everything about the Senator's business. …

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  • Fiction, women
  • Fiction, thrillers, espionage

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