Agent 6 (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: No. 301 of 800 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the frozen grip of the Cold War, where loyalty is a currency more dangerous than gold, Agent 6 plunges readers into the harrowing final chapter of Leo Demidov's story — a Soviet MGB officer who has survived purges, betrayal, and moral compromise, only to face his most personal reckoning yet. When his family is ensnared in a politically orchestrated trip to New York that ends in devastating tragedy, Leo is stripped of rank and exiled to Afghanistan, left to wage a decade-long shadow war in pursuit of a truth that the Soviet state has buried deep beneath layers of propaganda and lies. Tom Rob Smith crafts a sweeping, visceral espionage thriller that spans continents and decades, channelling the paranoia and human cost of an era defined by ideological warfare. The concluding volume of the Child 44 trilogy, Agent 6 illustrates Smith's rare ability to fuse pulse-pounding narrative momentum with a profound meditation on grief, justice, and the corrosive power of political systems on the individual soul. His prose is taut and cinematic, drawing on meticulous historical research to render Soviet-era Moscow and war-torn Kabul with unflinching authenticity. This numbered, signed edition — number 301 of just 800 — stands as a collector's testament to a series that redefined the espionage thriller for the twenty-first century. Will Leo finally uncover the truth, or will the machinery of the state prove an enemy too vast even for a man with nothing left to lose?
Author: Tom Rob Smith
Format: Hardback
Published: 2011, Simon & Schuster
Genre: Thriller
Edition: No. 301 of 800 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the frozen grip of the Cold War, where loyalty is a currency more dangerous than gold, Agent 6 plunges readers into the harrowing final chapter of Leo Demidov's story — a Soviet MGB officer who has survived purges, betrayal, and moral compromise, only to face his most personal reckoning yet. When his family is ensnared in a politically orchestrated trip to New York that ends in devastating tragedy, Leo is stripped of rank and exiled to Afghanistan, left to wage a decade-long shadow war in pursuit of a truth that the Soviet state has buried deep beneath layers of propaganda and lies. Tom Rob Smith crafts a sweeping, visceral espionage thriller that spans continents and decades, channelling the paranoia and human cost of an era defined by ideological warfare. The concluding volume of the Child 44 trilogy, Agent 6 illustrates Smith's rare ability to fuse pulse-pounding narrative momentum with a profound meditation on grief, justice, and the corrosive power of political systems on the individual soul. His prose is taut and cinematic, drawing on meticulous historical research to render Soviet-era Moscow and war-torn Kabul with unflinching authenticity. This numbered, signed edition — number 301 of just 800 — stands as a collector's testament to a series that redefined the espionage thriller for the twenty-first century. Will Leo finally uncover the truth, or will the machinery of the state prove an enemy too vast even for a man with nothing left to lose?