This is the third book by this author I've read this year. It was written in 1976 and is set in 1960-1961. It is a story about the operation to publish a smuggled Russian novel with the potential to rock the world. I'm not certain if the author, named Kamensky, is based on Pasternak, or Solzhenitsyn, although I'm leaning toward Pasternak's. Because a German courier died smuggling out the book, all are concerned that the western services have been compromised and the mole hunt is on in full force. The CIA tasks Paul Christopher to use his contacts in the Parisian White Russian community to have the novel published. Word leaks out and soon the Soviets are rolling up the courier network and Kamensky is dead. Christopher's life is further complicated by the fact that his one year old marriage is falling apart. The traitor turns out to be a long-term agency asset, an important part of the French resistance during the war, but who the KBG has been blackmailing since the Spanish Civil War.
For those inclined, these three are worth the effort, but not in the order published. I'd recommend they be read in the order of the timeframe they cover: Miernik, Lovers and Tears.
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