Moscow Exile, Lawton - C

                     We pick up the Joe Wilderness series where it left off the last time, on the Bridge of Spies (the Glienicke Bridge) in Cold War Berlin. Joe is shot and off to Moscow in a botched transfer. The story traces the very long career of an English woman, Charlotte, who did well in the US and worked for Moscow Centre. Our side knows that Charlie worked for her and spends a great many years trying to figure out just who was Charlie's handler. As it turns out, Joe had set up the bridge snafu on purpose to get to Moscow and find out from the long defected Charlie who he had reported to. All in all, way too beyond an acceptable degree of convoluted.