Defector in Paradise

 

Owen Roberts is an American spy who has been assigned to uncover a CIA mole who has been doing great damage to the U.S. spy network over the last couple years. As a result of the mole’s betrayal, 13 agents have been lost, some of whom were deeply seated and had successfully operated for many years. This is a story about the uncovering of the Russian mole’s identity, proving that this person was really the one, and there was urgency in the matter because of the mole’s involvement in the upcoming presidential election. Owen had to be so careful to whom he confided any details because the mole’s deep reach into the entire U.S. intelligence system. Could the U.S. really have a Russian mole in the White House?

To review this great book in more detail might give away the plot and I'm unwilling to do that to anyone who reads it. Defector in Paradise by Richard Snyder is the best fiction novel that I’ve read in 2024. It’s the second novel in a trilogy, and now I’m going to go back and find the first one, The Clandestine Education of Owen Roberts. If this is your genre, you’re going to have a blast.