The Helsinki Affair, Pitoniak - B

                      A walk in at Rome's CIA section of the embassy speaks to the number two, Amanda Cole. He tells her that a US senator will be assassinated in Cairo, and she believes him. Her boss, however, does not. When an 83 year old Sen. Vogel has a stroke in Cairo's heat, she is promoted and the station chief is sent to the hinterlands. Soon she is running her Russian agent, and looking into a very complex matter that the senator was working on. He was working with a different Russian, who had shared with him the Russian president's attempts to influence financial markets in the west. Things get really complicated when it appears that Amanda's dad may have helped the Russians thirty years before. A bit too plot twisty for me.