The Talbot Odyssey

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What if the OSS still exists secretly today? What if the tradition of General Donovan's elite agents has been clandestinely carried on by their children? What if one of them is a traitor?
Berlin, 1945. The German capital is collapsing in flames as Major Henry Kimberly of the Office of Strategic Services secretly slips into the city to recover trapped OSS agents. His mission is particularly dangerous because of a recent ominous discovery: Somewhere within the vast Allied intelligence network there is a double agent, a man with the code name Talbot. And after one last cryptic radio message Major Henry Kimberly is never heard from again.
Glen Cove, the present. Situated in this posh town on Long Island's Gold Coast is the baronial retreat of the Russian mission to the United Nations. As the Fourth of July nears, the town braces for a confrontation between the unwelcome Soviet diplomats and fanatic superpatriot George Van Dorn, owner of a neighboring estate. Van Dorn has promised a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

What if the OSS still exists secretly today? What if the tradition of General Donovan's elite agents has been clandestinely carried on by their children? What if one of them is a traitor?
Berlin, 1945. The German capital is collapsing in flames as Major Henry Kimberly of the Office of Strategic Services secretly slips into the city to recover trapped OSS agents. His mission is particularly dangerous because of a recent ominous discovery: Somewhere within the vast Allied intelligence network there is a double agent, a man with the code name Talbot. And after one last cryptic radio message Major Henry Kimberly is never heard from again.
Glen Cove, the present. Situated in this posh town on Long Island's Gold Coast is the baronial retreat of the Russian mission to the United Nations. As the Fourth of July nears, the town braces for a confrontation between the unwelcome Soviet diplomats and fanatic superpatriot George Van Dorn, owner of a neighboring estate. Van Dorn has promised a fabulous fireworks display —to be aimed directly at the Russian mansion. Only a handful of remaining OSS officers and their children, brilliant amateur intelligence experts, know that a far graver peril is scheduled for Independence Day: a highly technical plan, managed from within the American government, to disarm the United States in one stroke.
Tony Abrams, an ex-police detective, is brought in to spearhead their counterespionage effort. With the help of the cold but exquisitely beautiful Katherine Kimberly, he enters a lethal shadow world of illusion and violence. In this fearful game it's every man for himself; the enemy could be a friend, a wife, a lover. Slowly Abrams grapples with the awful truth: Like the warrior U lysses in the Greek legend, the double agent Talbot has returned to wreak a terrible vengeance —and he has an accomplice within the OSS group. Vissza