Audio Book Description:
The death of a journalist leadsAllon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He`s playingby Moscow rules now. This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproofBentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlesslysilenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance ofits old enemy, the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel whobuilt a global investment empire on the rubble ofthe Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealer-and he is aboutto deliver Russia`s most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see thedeadliest terror attacks since 9/11-and the clock is ticking fast. Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, MOSCOW RULES is at oncesuperior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East-and Silva`s finest novel yet.
