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The Seventh Floor (Extract)

The Rest Is Classified

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4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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To coincide with the release of David's latest novel, The Seventh Floor, we have the book’s first chapter in audiobook form for you to enjoy.   Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.   The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey, is OUT NOW in the UK. Pre-order a signed edition via this link. ------------------- 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, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procter’s central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of 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 soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow’s mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States. ------------------- Email: [email protected] Twitter: @triclassified Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6

Hi, I'm David McCloskey, and this is an audio chapter for my new book, The Seventh Floor.

0:42.6

The Seventh Floor, a novel, by David McCloskey.

0:47.0

Moscow present day.

0:49.7

The Russian suicide pen, a Montblanc was upstairs.

0:54.4

Should have kept it down here, he scolded himself.

0:57.2

Even with Alonia around, if he was right about these cars, there was precious little time.

1:03.4

He slid shut the drawer on his office desk and gently tipped Alonia from his knee.

1:08.8

Up, she insisted.

1:11.0

Up, up, up.

1:13.1

Her hands were extended, fingers flapping into palms, but he was distracted by the monitors.

1:20.4

Alonia mashed her face into his thigh with a squeal, imprinting his pant leg with sticky red

1:26.7

stains.

1:30.8

He looked down in panic, only to realize the stains were strawberry jam, which he himself had slathered on her breakfast toast. Normally,

1:37.2

this would have made him furious. Not now. He tickled her belly, and she laughed so hard

1:43.5

she curled up around his feet in giggles.

1:46.7

Go find your mother, my sweet. He said warmly, yet with firm undertones Alonia could not miss.

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