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Robert Syd Hopkins
A Killing in Rome
A Killing in Rome
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Needing Locken's talents, a nasty former adversary comes for help.
The third in a trilogy or hard-edged thrillers featuring specialist in security and transport Mike Locken. "Locken's a brazen rouchneck, and the action's incessant." Library Journal.
Mike Locken is back -- street-smarter maybe, but his beatup exterior no more durable, thinking those days of plying his trade during the Cold War for an off-the-books operation of the U.S State Department were ancient history.
That is until Max Gurtz, a wily trafficker of people with a good reason and enough money to want a quick exit from Russia, arrives to offer Locken a mission he can't refuse -- for a private reason Locken will admit to no one.
The job? A Russian named Vanya Kirovin, aka The Butcher, the one-time head of the KGB's unit of head-hunters and assassins, the GRU. Locken's task, to get Kirovin -- now on the run from his own people -- from Budapest to a sanctuary in Rome.
Oh, yeah, Locken knows Kirovin and his thug enforcers too well. Back when Locken was shepherding Soviet defectors and blown US agents out from behind the Iron Curtain, his team and Kirovin's collided too often and the meetings were always bloody.
The joker is that now the only person Kirovin will trust to orchestrate his flight to safety is Mike Locken, once his fiercest (and most imaginative) adversary. What was that line of George Orwell's? That we're living in times when enemies become our friends, and friends our enemies.
So Locken hastily puts together a team of has-been, black-ops vets, not without talent, but with questionable nerve for their former game. To pull off Kirovin's transport against increasing long odds. Locken has no doubt Kirovin is bringing a trading basket full of names and secrets that both Kirovin's former bosses plus the CIA and every other alphabet gang would love to get their hands on.
And with Kirovin on the run there was other certainty in Locken's thinking. That somewhere along the way will be Kirovin's own former ace assassin, never positively i.d.'d, known only as Borla. The name still sets off images frozen in Locken's mind, as clear as yesterday... of a lady's brutal killing at the hands of Borla.
Says Publishers Weekly, "The author of "Viper's Game" proves again that he can calibrate tension with the best thriller-writers, and the equal of Len Deighton when it comes to a cynical finale." Adds Newgate Callendar in the New York Times, "Action abounds with a trick ending to boot."
The third in a trilogy or hard-edged thrillers featuring specialist in security and transport Mike Locken. "Locken's a brazen rouchneck, and the action's incessant." Library Journal.
Mike Locken is back -- street-smarter maybe, but his beatup exterior no more durable, thinking those days of plying his trade during the Cold War for an off-the-books operation of the U.S State Department were ancient history.
That is until Max Gurtz, a wily trafficker of people with a good reason and enough money to want a quick exit from Russia, arrives to offer Locken a mission he can't refuse -- for a private reason Locken will admit to no one.
The job? A Russian named Vanya Kirovin, aka The Butcher, the one-time head of the KGB's unit of head-hunters and assassins, the GRU. Locken's task, to get Kirovin -- now on the run from his own people -- from Budapest to a sanctuary in Rome.
Oh, yeah, Locken knows Kirovin and his thug enforcers too well. Back when Locken was shepherding Soviet defectors and blown US agents out from behind the Iron Curtain, his team and Kirovin's collided too often and the meetings were always bloody.
The joker is that now the only person Kirovin will trust to orchestrate his flight to safety is Mike Locken, once his fiercest (and most imaginative) adversary. What was that line of George Orwell's? That we're living in times when enemies become our friends, and friends our enemies.
So Locken hastily puts together a team of has-been, black-ops vets, not without talent, but with questionable nerve for their former game. To pull off Kirovin's transport against increasing long odds. Locken has no doubt Kirovin is bringing a trading basket full of names and secrets that both Kirovin's former bosses plus the CIA and every other alphabet gang would love to get their hands on.
And with Kirovin on the run there was other certainty in Locken's thinking. That somewhere along the way will be Kirovin's own former ace assassin, never positively i.d.'d, known only as Borla. The name still sets off images frozen in Locken's mind, as clear as yesterday... of a lady's brutal killing at the hands of Borla.
Says Publishers Weekly, "The author of "Viper's Game" proves again that he can calibrate tension with the best thriller-writers, and the equal of Len Deighton when it comes to a cynical finale." Adds Newgate Callendar in the New York Times, "Action abounds with a trick ending to boot."
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