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Henry McGee Is Not Dead (November Man, Bk 9)
Henry McGee Is Not Dead - November Man, Bk 9 Author:Bill Granger Elusive Henry McGee is a Soviet scientist who defected to the West bearing invaluable scientific and military information but now he has disappeared from an advanced scientific project in Alaska. Immediately on his trail are not only the FBI and the CIA, but Devereaux (the November Man), head of R Section and the novel's closest approximatio... more »n to a hero.
At the same time the KGB "persuades" Soviet spy-defector Denisov to try to bring both McGee and Devereaux to the Soviet Union (via submarine). Mixed into this swirl of action are a dissident Eskimo group, led by an ex-con, that plans to attach an atomic bomb to the Alaskan pipeline, and a female senator who plans to make a fortune out of what she knows about the scheme.
Life is cheap in McGee's world, torture routine, the women as ruthless as the men; and since, to quote one of the characters, "Words are for lies," coming at the truth becomes for the reader an especially tricky and exciting game.« less