DeclareAs a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark. |
Contents
Section 24 | 323 |
Section 25 | 330 |
Section 26 | 360 |
Section 27 | 375 |
Section 28 | 384 |
Section 29 | 401 |
Section 30 | 413 |
Section 31 | 414 |
Section 9 | 99 |
Section 10 | 110 |
Section 11 | 117 |
Section 12 | 136 |
Section 13 | 159 |
Section 14 | 168 |
Section 15 | 173 |
Section 16 | 177 |
Section 17 | 200 |
Section 18 | 229 |
Section 19 | 233 |
Section 20 | 239 |
Section 21 | 242 |
Section 22 | 266 |
Section 23 | 295 |
Section 32 | 417 |
Section 33 | 447 |
Section 34 | 449 |
Section 35 | 481 |
Section 36 | 489 |
Section 37 | 504 |
Section 38 | 513 |
Section 39 | 519 |
Section 40 | 526 |
Section 41 | 528 |
Section 42 | 537 |
Section 43 | 562 |
Section 44 | 584 |
Section 45 | 585 |
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