2/2; Moscow X: A Novel by David McCloskey (Author)
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
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2/2; Moscow X: A Novel by David McCloskey (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Moscow-X-Novel-David-McCloskey/dp/1324050756
CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin’s moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max’s family business in Mexico―a CIA front since the 1960s―is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple to target Vadim, Putin’s private banker, and his wife, Anna, who―unbeknownst to CIA―is a Russian intelligence officer under deep cover at the bank. As they descend further into a Russian world dripping with luxury and rife with gangland violence, Sia and Max’s only hope may be Anna, who is playing a game of her own. Careening between the horse ranch in northern Mexico, the corridors of Langley, and the dark opulence of Putin’s Russia, Moscow X is both a gripping thriller of modern espionage and a raw, unsparing commentary on the nature of truth, loyalty, and vengeance amid the shadow war between the United States and Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, okay, I promise I'll keep this debrief short. So I just had my date with the Bumble |
| 0:05.3 | guy, so cute. He surprised me with tickets to see this band I love. Then he got us a spot at the front |
| 0:10.8 | so I could actually see. It was amazing you know like I really felt good vibes. |
| 0:14.8 | Oh and he sent me a let me know when you get home message. That makes him really hot. |
| 0:20.8 | Kindness is sexy. Find it on Bumble. |
| 0:23.0 | A bunch on that's what David McCluskey, his new book, A Thriller, Moscow X. |
| 0:31.0 | David is a observer of the CIA and he's turned his eyes on the |
| 0:37.6 | CIA's adversaries. Same for the US's adversaries. The first book, Damascus station, was about the |
| 0:45.0 | jihadist, the Islamists, the nihilists of the Middle East. Now his adversary |
| 0:51.6 | are the nihilists of the Kremlin. |
| 0:54.0 | Men and they're all men who steal very big from the Russian people |
| 0:59.0 | and then spend their lives defending their swag |
| 1:02.0 | or killing their rivals or removing their rivals. |
| 1:05.8 | It's very much a violent world, but we're going to look at just a little bit of the architecture. |
| 1:12.4 | There is a plot and it revolves around, guess what, follow |
| 1:16.1 | the money because that is everything for Moscow today. David in constructing how the money works and how people work in and out, again and again |
| 1:27.9 | came up against the fact that state security, as Putin has organized it, as you say, the world of State security, |
| 1:37.0 | has in it figures that we must pay attention to, the old criminology. |
| 1:42.0 | You have a fictional character in whom you call Goose or Guse. |
| 1:45.4 | And he, to my reading, and I want the author to confirm this, very much resembles a very powerful man. |
| 1:53.6 | Nikolai Petruchef, who is the head of the National Security Council, |
| 1:57.9 | very close to Putin. |
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