Tommy Carmellini, who dazzled thriller fans in Stephen Coonts's Cuba and liberty is the CIA's top man for jobs that require extreme stealth, breaking and entering skills, and split-second, sometimes lethal, decisions. In Liars & thieves, he's sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
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