WITH 50 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE NELSON DEMILLE IS A TRUE MASTER. DAN BROWN It started as a simple spy hunt. It became a desperate battle to save the West. For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret the Russians have a mole codenamed Talbot inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a streetsmart excop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets leading to a new Soviet weapon and a firststrike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S. time is running out. For Talbot the time is now. show more