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Through the best-selling author of Going out of 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 safeness - and jail - of Moscow but never lost his present for betrayal. In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired young man of the newly made CIA, was open as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Flat iron Drape. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved task almost certain to be a global best vendor, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to modify the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book will be filled up with mischief and misinformation; Frank's motives are suspect, the CIA hostile. However the chance to see Frank, his adored aged brother, proves irresistible. And initially Frank continues to be Frank - the same charm, the same jokes, the same relationship of passion that transcends ideology. Then Simon starts to glance another Frank, still with the capacity of treachery, still actively doing work for "the service". He confirms himself dragged in to the middle of Frank's new system, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal cat-and-mouse game that only 1 of the brothers will probably survive. Defectors is the gripping account of 1 family torn aside by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it's also a revealing go through the wider community of defectors, North american and British, living a twilit Moscow presence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who've escaped one jail only to find themselves caught in another that is even more sinister. Filled with authentic period fine detail and moral ambiguity, Defectors takes us to the heart of a world of secrets, where no person can be trusted and murder is merely collateral damage.
