The Seventh Floor, McCloskey - B+
After losing her friend and colleague, Sam, on a busted op in Singapore, Artemis Proctor is unceremoniously ushered out the door at the Agency. A few months later, after languishing in a Moscow jail, Sam shows up at her door. He tells her something he did not tell his captors or his debriefers - there is a high level mole at Langley. He and Artemis begin to plan an op to find out who it is. Their search comes to the attention of the mole, who in turn asks Moscow for help. Moscow assigns two relatively inexperienced sleeper agents to dispose of Artemis and Sam. After a miss at Artemis, Deb Sweet, number 2 in the CIA, shows up looking for answers and hustles Artemis to the Farm. Since Artemis considers her one of the possible moles, she takes flight and heads back to DC. She and Sam fly to France, run a surveillance of a safe house, and conclude that a very high up former friend and lover of Artemis', Mac mason, is the mole. They present their information to the 7th Floor. Soon, Mac retires, as does his Russian handler. After the Russian sleeper agent kills Sam, Artemis heads to Paris. She confronts Mac, obtains his confession and the location of his loot, and sends him into the next world. Six months later after a meeting with Deb Sweet, Artemis is back on the payroll. This is the third book by a former CIA agent who tells great stories.
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