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It is summer time 1999 in Russia, a country for the threshold of anarchy. An interim chief executive rests powerless in Moscow as his nation is normally wracked by famine and inflation, crime and problem, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the roads.

For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one- about Icon: A Novel time military sergeant that has risen to management of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos was created to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his dazzling voice rings out on the airwaves providing the roiling masses wish at last-not only for law, order, and prosperity, but also for restoring the dropped greatness of their land.

Who’s this man with the golden tongue who’s so quickly getting the promise of the Russia reborn? A record stolen from party head office and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those that remember the past, for this Dark Manifesto is real Mein Kampf inside a country with terrifying parallels towards the Germany from the Weimar Republic.

Officially the West can do nothing, but in secret several elder statesmen transmits the only one who can expose the reality about Komarov in to the heart from the inferno. Jason Monk, ex-CIA and ‘the best damn agent-runner we ever had,’ acquired sworn he’d never go back to Moscow, but one name adjustments his mind. Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB officer who tortured and murdered four of Monk’s providers after they have been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is now Komarov’s head of security.

Monk includes a dual objective: to stop Komarov, whatever needs doing, and to prepare the way for an icon worth the Russian people. But he has a personal objective aswell: to settle the final rating with Grishin. To get this done he must stay alive–and the pushes allied against him are ruthless, enough time frighteningly short . .

Praise for Icon

“Classic Forsyth, intricate, exact and gripping.”-The New York Times Book Review

“Another strong performance by a writer who knows exactly what he’s about, and who right here catalyzes narrative with another memorable protagonist, the stealthy and daring Monk.”-Publishers Regular (starred review)

“One of his best works for a long period, which provides an all-too-real take a look at a chilling new millennium.”-The Sunday Times, London