Defectors, Kanon - B +

                                               In 1961, more than a decade after his brother Frank's defection, Simon Weeks goes to Moscow to edit Frank's memoir about his life as a KGB spy while serving in the OSS during WW2 and in the CIA in the early days of the Cold War. The assignment appears to be simple enough: spend a week with his brother and fine-tune a likely bestseller. However, Frank throws him a curve with a request to pass a message back to the CIA. He'd like to defect back to the US. But, Simon is actually working for the CIA. Does Frank really wish to leave or perhaps, is he trying to entrap a senior CIA man? There are plots within plots, which is why Le Carre was mentioned in a review or two. It's always good to go back to an old-fashioned Cold War thriller.