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 doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole within the upper reaches of the 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 requires Procter to dredge up her checkered past in the service of CIA, placing the pair in the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow's mole in Langley at all costs.

David McCloskey is the author of the novels Damascus Station and Moscow X. He's a former CIA analyst and a former consultant at McKinsey & Company. While at the CIA, he worked in field stations across the Middle East. He lives in Texas. He'll be in conversation with Marc Polymeropoulos, who worked for 26 years at the CIA before retiring in July 2019 at the Senior Intelligence Service level. He specialized in counterterrorism, the Middle East and South Asia, including extensive time in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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