The Talbot Odyssey
| Author | Nelson DeMille |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 422 |
| ISBN | 9780385293228 |
| OCLC | 10163038 |
The Talbot Odyssey is a 1984 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.
Plot
[edit ]Tony Abrams, a former police detective who served at the NYPD's Intelligence Division,[1] is working as the office's investigator for the O'Brien, Kimberly, and Rose law firm of New York. He stumbles upon a swirl of intrigue that leads to discovery that for over forty years there is an active mole, code-named Talbot, within the CIA.
Talbot's mission is to carry out a secret plan devised by rogue elements in the USSR government, to attack the United States with a first-strike weapon, an unprecedented attack that would cause a mortal blow to the country. It is up to Abrams and the lawyer Katherine Kimberly to stop him.
References
[edit ]- ^ Nelson DeMille, "The Talbot Odyssey", Warner Books, 1984, page 15, "You were in police intelligence, weren't you? The Red Squad".
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