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Violence
A lot
Significant spy thriller violence; the Moscow sequences include pursuit and lethal encounters
Language
Some
Adult language in the thriller register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some drinking in the espionage setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
The paranoia of not knowing who you can trust — and the psychological weight of being a spy in a city where everyone is watching — creates the novel's sustained tension
What this book is about
Robert Dugoni's first Charles Jenkins thriller follows Jenkins, a retired CIA officer living quietly on a farm, who is called back into service to extract a spy called the Eighth Sister from Moscow. The mission goes wrong; Jenkins finds himself hunted by Russian intelligence while the CIA may be the bigger threat. Dugoni delivers well-paced spy thriller action with significant violence appropriate to the genre.
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