The Venona Cable: A Thriller

ISBN: 0805088946

Author: Ghelfi, Brent

Condition: New

Russian agent and criminal Alexei Volkovoy pays an action-packed visit to the U.S. to uncover secrets of the infamous Venona cables and to attempt to clear his family nameThe past erupts into the present when the police arrest Alexei Volkovoy, known as Volk, at Moscows Sheremetyevo Airport and take him to a murder scene. At first, the dead man appears to be just one more victim of Moscows out-of-control violence. But Volk soon discovers that he is a famous Hollywood filmmaker whose reputation was destroyed in 1995 when the CIA released decrypted documents from the Venona cables-the top-secret American and British crypto-analysis of Soviet messages that implicated the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Kim Philby, and hundreds of other Soviet spies. Tucked inside the Americans pocket is a marked-up Venona intercept that refers to a Russian used as a spy by the Americans, a man who may have been Volks illustrious father.Aided by his female partner, Valya, Volks only hope to clear his family name will be to solve this murder and discover how the Venona papers relate to his fathers disappearance, while powerful forces want to keep him from investigating the past and to remove him from the present.