The title of this book by David McCloskey refers to the executive offices of the CIA's Langley facility. From the book jacket: "Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people's secrets. Now they must steal each other's. A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter's doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA. As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter's closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt requires Procter to dredge up her checkered past in the service of the CIA, placing the pair in the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow's mole in Langley at all costs."
Really good pacing, complex main character--Artemis Proctor, and written by a former CIA analyst who "layers the novel with the inside details of tradecraft that only a writer of his background could provide" (Publishers Weekly). PW provided a very lukewarm review; they like the 2 previous novels better, Moscow X and Damascus Station. Enjoyable read if you like espionage thrillers, and I do.
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