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  • Location: Riga, Moscow, Berlin, Olhão, Tangiers

The Collaborators

The Collaborators

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2024: An electrifying, globetrotting spy thriller

  • ISBN: 978-1398537750
  • Genre: Spy story, Thriller

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A brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress stumble into a global conspiracy that pits present-day Russia against the CIA in this electrifying, globetrotting spy thriller.

Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time. How exactly did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?

Criss-crossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset, and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiralling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father. The duo’s adventures take us to both classic and surprising locales – from Berlin and Tangier to Latvia, Belarus and a semi-abandoned technopark outside Moscow.

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The author says:

There’s a reason why the best spy fiction tends to be written by former spies. Given the profession’s nature, the rest of us only know it from other books and films — which dooms civilians like myself to creating, at best, collages cut out from older, better works.

In writing The Collaborators (which follows a CIA officer and a troubled LA heiress on a quest to find her vanished father), I was determined to avoid this pitfall. But how do you make a story like this feel authentic and personal? Well, my solution was to set every scene in a place where I have lived myself. No cold research, no Google Maps: only memories.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Collaborators

Destination/location: Riga, Moscow, Berlin, Olhão, Tangiers    Author/guide:  Michael Idov Departure Time: 2000s

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