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A junior American code clerk defects to the Russians and informs the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service that former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Natalie Childers has manipulated global trade agreements to benefit an investment conglomerate owned by her husband. Childers, now the Democratic presidential candidate, faces a vigorous national campaign. Meanwhile, double agent Dominika Egorova, ordered by Vladimir Putin, prepares a special operation: Russia will threaten to expose Childers’ malfeasance unless she agrees to order Pentagon budget cuts, propose debilitating reforms in NATO, and move toward the dissolution of the Atlantic Alliance.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Thriller/Political Thriller
Authors: Jason Matthews
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