White Fox - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor OWEN MATTHEWS reported on conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, and Ukraine, and was Newsweek 's bureau chief in Moscow. He is the author of the Black Sun Trilogy, including Black Sun, Red Traitor , and White Fox , and is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Stalin's Children , Glorious Misadventures , and An Impeccable Spy . Klappentext "The gripping completion of the Alexander Vasin trilogy, a taut thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. 1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy's death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin's new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin, are sent to disappear and die quietly. But when tensions in the camp mount and a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy. In a breathless chase that leads them throughout the Soviet Union, from the barren Siberian wastelands, to the stunning halls of the Catherine Palace, and into the gritty streets of Leningrad and Moscow, Vasin must stay one step ahead of the deadliest spy and police organizations in the world, and keep the most wanted man in Russia alive. The journey will push Vasin's loyalty, morality, and patriotism to the limit, until he faces the ultimate choice: fall in line, or die fighting the system. With masterful storytelling that weaves together a moment of explosive history with the cutthroat machinations of Soviet politics, Owen Matthews' WHITE FOX captures the paradigm-shifting assassination from a unique Soviet point of view. This is a page-turning thriller across Russia, where characters facing impossible odds are forced to decide between truth, justice, and all-out war"-- Leseprobe 1 VorkutLag 51, 22 November 1963 The news came over Soviet State Radio Mayak, blaring in the empty officers’ mess as Vasin sat at a plain wooden table, eating alone. “Comrade radio listeners. We have interrupted our broadcast because of a distressing report we have just received from New York.” Vasin looked up abruptly at the bulky speaker, as if at a television. “It has been officially announced that US President John Kennedy has died in a hospital after having been the victim of an attack by, it is supposed, persons from extreme right-wing elements. US President John Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally fell under the bullets of assassins while driving in an open car through the streets of Dallas. There were three shots. One of the bullets struck the President in the head . . .” The report might have come from the moon, or some other distant planet of warmth and light. Somewhere, beyond hundreds of kilometers of tundra and boreal forest, there was a world where great events happened. Vasin understood the words of the news bulletin, but his mind could not put images to them, or meaning. He tried to turn his attention back to his cabbage soup but found his appetite had vanished. For nearly a year, the VorkutLag 51 Strict Regime Penal Colony had been Vasin’s kingdom--and his personal calvary. The American spy Oleg Morozov had been arrested and executed. Morozov’s unwitting protector General Ivan Serov was removed from his post as the head of Soviet military intelligence and expelled from the Party. All thanks to KGB Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vasin. But to accomplish his last mission Vasin had broken rules, burned bridges--even committed what some would call treason. What his boss, General Orlov, head of the KGB’s secretive Special Cases Department, did call treason. As Vasin had always feared, Orlov’s...

Product details

• Authors: Owen Matthews
• Publisher: Doubleday Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2023
• EAN: 9780385543446
• ISBN: 978-0-385-54344-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 245 mm x 29 mm
• Series: The Black Sun Trilogy
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature