The bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and Istanbul Passage “continues to show that he’s up there with the very best…of spy thriller writers” (THE DAYS, UK) with this “interesting” (The Washington Post) book about two brothers bound by blood but divided by loyalty.

In 1949, Frank Weeks, agent of the newly formed CIA, was uncovered like a Communist spy and fled the united states to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Right now, twelve years later, he has created his memoirs, a KGB- authorized task about Defectors: A Book almost certain to be a global bestseller, and provides asked his sibling Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It’s a reunion Simon both dreads and dreams about.

The book will be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank’s motives suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to find out Frank, his adored older brother, proves amazing. And at first Frank is still Frank-the same attraction, the same jokes, the same relationship of love that transcends ideology.

After that Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, capable of treachery and actively doing work for “the service.” He finds himself dragged in to the middle of Frank’s new scheme, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal kitty and mouse game that only one from the brothers will probably survive.

“A finely paced Chilly War thriller with [Kanon’s] usual flair for atmospheric fine detail, intriguing heroes, and suspenseful actions” (Library Journal), Defectors takes us towards the heart of a world of secrets, where even the people we realize best can’t end up being trusted and murder is merely collateral damage.