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Defectors (2017)

par Joseph Kanon

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"From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety--and prison--of Moscow, but never lost his gift for betrayal. In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank's motives suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older brother, proves irresistible. And at first Frank is still Frank--the same charm, the same jokes, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for "the service." He finds himself dragged into the middle of Frank's new scheme, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal cat and mouse game that only one of the brothers is likely to survive. Defectors is the gripping story of one family torn apart by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it's also a revealing look at the wider community of defectors, American and British, living a twilit Moscow existence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who have escaped one prison only to find themselves trapped in another that is even more sinister. Filled with authentic period detail and moral ambiguity, Defectors takes us to the heart of a world of secrets, where no one can be trusted and murder is just collateral damage"--… (plus d'informations)
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FROM AMAZON: A fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety - and prison - of Moscow but never lost his gift for betrayal.

In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank's motives are suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older brother, proves irresistible.

And at first Frank is still Frank - the same charm, the same jokes, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for "the service". He finds himself dragged into the middle of Frank's new scheme, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal cat-and-mouse game that only one of the brothers is likely to survive.

Defectors is the gripping story of one family torn apart by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it's also a revealing look at the wider community of defectors, American and British, living a twilit Moscow existence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who have escaped one prison only to find themselves trapped in another that is even more sinister. Filled with authentic period detail and moral ambiguity, Defectors takes us to the heart of a world of secrets, where no one can be trusted and murder is just collateral damage.
  Gmomaj | Apr 14, 2022 |
You get what you pay for, and I got my money worth ($1). ( )
  DKV98446 | Apr 15, 2020 |
An entertaining and thrilling novel set in Moscow and Leningrad in 1961. An American, Frank Weeks, who defected to the Soviet Union a decade earlier has permission to write his memoir and invites his brother, Simon, now a publisher, who was dismissed from the CIA as a result of Frank’s treachery, to finalise the editing and publishing of the book in America. The action takes place over his week’s visit as Frank surprisingly reveals his wish to return to America, but can Simon really trust his brother, or is this another betrayal? Kanon ratchets up the tension with some clever plotting as Frank draws Simon further into his plans and spins a web of complexity where much is not as it seems. The story has an exciting and tension-filled finale as Simon attempts to discover the truth about his brother.
  camharlow2 | Mar 7, 2019 |
It's been more than ten years since his brother, about to be caught sharing secrets with the Soviets, defected to the Soviet Union. Simon Weeks had to leave his job at the State Department, but connections and hard work have brought him a comfortable job as an editor with a New York publishing house. Now he's in Moscow. His brother has written a memoir and Simon is there to go over the final edits, always in the presence of his brother's handler. But all is not as it seems. His brother's wife is unhappy and Frank wants to return to the US for her sake.

Joseph Kanon has a skill for writing complex novels set in the immediate aftermath of WWII and Defectors is one of his best. Once again, a man of principle is placed into an impossible situation and how he works his way through all the various lies and subterfuges to find his way out is just a lot of fun. Kanon also writes vividly of Moscow in 1961 and of the peculiar world of American and British defectors living in the USSR and their precarious place of both suspicion and privilege. ( )
  RidgewayGirl | Nov 4, 2018 |
I expected more from this, given Kanon's previous works having impressed me. While this is perhaps an accurate portrayal of what it must have been like to defect, the central characters aren't very convincing, or even very likeable. The ending was pretty anticlimactic and frankly fairly silly. I liked the description of the damaged lives traitors and defectors must have lived in 1960's Russia, and the novel was well researched. Perhaps it would have served better to put that information into a non-fiction setting, but it didn't really do it for me as a work of fiction. ( )
  fizzypops | Sep 14, 2018 |
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"From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety--and prison--of Moscow, but never lost his gift for betrayal. In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank's motives suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older brother, proves irresistible. And at first Frank is still Frank--the same charm, the same jokes, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for "the service." He finds himself dragged into the middle of Frank's new scheme, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal cat and mouse game that only one of the brothers is likely to survive. Defectors is the gripping story of one family torn apart by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it's also a revealing look at the wider community of defectors, American and British, living a twilit Moscow existence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who have escaped one prison only to find themselves trapped in another that is even more sinister. Filled with authentic period detail and moral ambiguity, Defectors takes us to the heart of a world of secrets, where no one can be trusted and murder is just collateral damage"--

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