Why did Michelle love this book?
McCloskey is brilliant at teaching the reader about a country's internal politics while providing a fast and page turning read. His first book Damascus Station gave me a lot of insight into Syria and in Moscow X he does the same to Putin's Russia. It is spy-tainment at its best.
2 authors picked Moscow X as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico-a CIA front since the 1960s-is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple, and their targets are Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife, Anna, who is both a banker and an intelligence officer. As they descend further into a Russian world dripping with luxury and rife with gangland violence, Sia and Max's hope may be Anna, who is playing a game of her own. Careening between…