Agent 6 (US)

Tom Rob Smith-the bestselling, award-winning author of Child 44 and one of the most critically-acclaimed new writers of our time-returns with a thrilling and provocative new novel. AGENT 6 How far would you go to solve a crime against your family? It is 1965. Leo Demidov, a former secret police agent, is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters from Moscow to New York. They are part of a ''Peace Tour,'' meant to foster closer relations between the two Cold War enemies. On the tour, Leo's family is caught up in a conspiracy and betrayal that ends in tragedy. In the horrible aftermath, Leo demands one thing: that he be allowed to investigate and find the attacker that struck at the heart of his family on foreign soil. From the highest levels of the Soviet government, he is told No, that is impossible. Leo is haunted by the question: what happened in New York? In a surprising, epic story that spans decades and... Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle the threads of a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. Deftly capturing the claustrophobic intensity of the Cold War-era Soviet Union, it's at once a heart-pounding thriller and a richly atmospheric novel of extraordinary depth.... AGENT 6 Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately suspicious. Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal-one that will end in tragedy. In the horrible aftermath, Leo demands only one thing: to investigate the killer who destroyed his family. His request is summarily denied. Crippled by grief and haunted by the need to find out exactly what happened on that night in New York, Leo takes matters into his own hands. It is a quest that will span decades, and take Leo around the world--from Moscow, to the mountains of Soviet-controlled Afghanistan, to the backstreets of New York--in pursuit of the one man who knows the truth: Agent 6. Moskau 1950. Der schwarze amerikanische Sänger Jesse Austin besucht die Sowjetunion, um sein idealistisches Bild des Kommunismus zu überprüfen. Damit Austin nicht hinter die Kulissen des für ihn inszenierten Alltags schauen kann, wird ihm Geheimdienstoffizier Leo Demidow an die Seite gestellt. Doch trotz Leos Einsatz kommt es fast zum Eklat. Fünfzehn Jahre später reist Demidows Frau Raisa mit ihren beiden Töchtern nach New York, wo ein Konzert sowjetischer und amerikanischer Schüler für Entspannung im Kalten Krieg sorgen soll. Auch Jesse Austin wurde eine Rolle in dem Spektakel zugewiesen. Der Abend endet mit mehreren Toten, und nur ein Mann weiß, was wirklich geschah: Agent 6. Und eines Tages wird Leo ihn finden.