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Overview

THREE DECADES.
TWO MURDERS.
ONE CONSPIRACY.

WHO IS AGENT 6?

Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle the threads of a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. Deftly capturing the claustrophobic intensity of the Cold War-era Soviet Union, it's at once a heart-pounding thriller and a richly atmospheric novel of extraordinary depth....

AGENT 6

Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately suspicious.

Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal-one that will end in tragedy.

In the horrible aftermath, Leo demands only one thing: to investigate the killer who destroyed his family. His request is summarily denied. Crippled by grief and haunted by the need to find out exactly what happened on that night in New York, Leo takes matters into his own hands. It is a quest that will span decades, and take Leo around the world--from Moscow, to the mountains of Soviet-controlled Afghanistan, to the backstreets of New York--in pursuit of the one man who knows the truth: Agent 6.

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Publishers Weekly
Spanning decades, the ambitious final volume of Thriller Award–winner Smith’s trilogy set in the Soviet Union (after 2009’s The Secret Speech and 2008’s Child 44) takes former KGB agent Leo Demidov from Moscow to Manhattan via a gripping, relentless whodunit plot. In 1950, the Soviet authorities plan to exploit the arrival in Moscow of Jesse Austin, a Paul Robeson–like American singer and dedicated Communist, for propaganda purposes, but Austin’s refusal to play along creates complications. The full implications of Austin’s behavior don’t become apparent until the action shifts to 1965, when Demidov’s wife and two adolescent daughters travel to New York City as part of a delegation intended to ease cold war tensions, and tragedy ensues. Most readers will reach the final page with regret and in awe of Smith’s uncompromising vision of the realities of a police state and the toll it takes on those caught in its meshes. (Jan.)
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Fortified by formidable details of Soviet history, Smith's closing volume of the Leo Demidov trilogy (Child 44; The Secret Speech) knits together iconic characters and elements as Leo for 30 years inexorably seeks justice. In a devastating tragedy in 1965, his wife is killed while on a Cold War public relations trip to Manhattan, but Leo is denied any chance to investigate. He is assigned as a police adviser in Afghanistan, where events make it possible for him to get to New York. Though weary, he works to find out the truth behind Raisa's death. VERDICT Fans of Smith's first two books will avidly seek out the final chapter, though this one stands on its own as well. The Afghan interlude is a searing echo of today's headlines, while the buildup of suspense over several decades is the armchair equivalent of a jaw-jarringly extreme ride at an amusement park. [See Prepub Alert, 7/18/11.]—Barbara Conaty, Falls Church, VA
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Political whodunit author Smith (Child 44, 2008, etc.) returns with more intrigue from behind the old Iron Curtain. Actually, a good chunk of the intrigue occurs on this side of the Atlantic. Leo Demidov is a loyal functionary, a good servant of the state and its apparatus, "a decorated soldier recruited to the ranks of the secret police after the Great Patriotic War." He is also sensitive to the Orwellian implications of his job, aware that open sedition isn't always the thing to look out for; more important are the incomplete or insincere expressions of love for the Great Leader and the system. Naturally, under such a regime even the most loyal of servants falls under suspicion, and on that point some of Smith's taut tale hinges on the introduction of some key players. One is an African-American singer named Jesse Austin, transparently modeled on Paul Robeson, who, "unlike many Negro singers," as one apparatchik dryly puts it, is unreligious--or better, "Communism is his church." When Austin falls to an assassin in New York, Demidov's wife, Raisa, traveling there on a cultural mission, is implicated, thanks in good part to a loyal cop on the capitalist side of the Wall, an FBI man who specializes in "nonlegal harassment" of suspected Communists and fellow travelers. Demidov is stymied when his controllers deny him permission to dig into the truth--and, nonlegally, he takes matters into his own hands, which puts him in some of the more precarious corners of the world, not least of them Afghanistan. Smith's tale spans years and continents, and the period details are exactly right even as he spins out an old-fashioned thriller that would do Ludlum and le Carré proud. The story is a little long, but it has a nicely creepy and--yes--Orwellian ending that amply repays the occasional detour in getting there. A big book, in every sense, that's sure to draw attention.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446550765
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 1/5/2012
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 15,937
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 6.20 (h) x 1.70 (d)

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Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith is a screenwriter and novelist whose literary debut, 2008's Child 44, inspired an intense bidding war at the London Book Fair. The well-received thriller was subsequently optioned by film director Ridley Scott.

Biography

After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001 and spending a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship, Tom Rob Smith went to work writing scripts and storylines for British television. He lived for a while in Phnom Penh, working on Cambodia's first-ever soap opera and doing freelance screenwriting in his spare time.

While researching material for a film adaptation of a short story by British sci-fi writer Jeff Noon, Smith stumbled across the real-life case of "Rostov Ripper" Andrei Chikkatilo, a Russian serial killer who murdered more than 60 women and children in the 1980s. Chikkatilo's killing spree went unchecked for nearly 13 years, largely because Soviet officials refused to admit that crime existed in their perfect state. Intrigued, Smith recognized the potential of this concept as a work of fiction and worked up a script "treatment." His agent, however, suggested the material would be better showcased in a novel.

The result was Child 44, a gripping crime thriller about a Soviet policeman determined to stop a child serial killer his superiors won't even admit exists. Smith upped the action ante by setting the story in the Stalinist era of the 1950s, a period when opposing the state could cost you your life. And, in MGB officer Leo Stepanovich Demidov, he created the most fascinating Russian detective since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko.

Child 44 became the object of an intense bidding war at the 2007 London Book Fair. (The buzz only increased when director Ridley Scott bought the film rights.) But the book proved worthy of its hype, garnering glowing reviews on its publication in the spring of 2008. Scott Turow (no slouch in the thriller department himself) proclaimed, "Child 44 is a remarkable debut novel -- inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last."

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    • Posted January 20, 2012

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      Very Well-Written And, Ultimately, Enjoyable But Don't Expect A Fast-Paced Read!

      Agent 6 is the final book in the Child 44 trilogy. Similar to its predecessors (Child 44 and The Secret Speech), in Agent 6 Tom Rob Smith's prose is spot on; his narrative is engrossing; the main character, Leo Demidov, continues to be one of the most richly developed and memorable characters in the thriller genre. Also, as I experienced in the first two books, Smith weaves his tale in Agent 6 in such a way that I, as the reader, felt I was right in the middle of the action with the main characters. That being said, while Agent 6 is a worthwhile read -- and is likely to be a "must" read for those who enjoyed Child 44 and The Secret Speech, its plot is inconsistent in terms of being continually riveting. Now, I'll try to explain what I mean. For me, this inconsistency comes about because Smith's 467 page plot in Agent 6 varies in intensity and interest as it spans about a thirty year period and a few continents. The first 200 pages or so are very interesting and create a slow but steady level of excitement during the periods ranging from 1950s Moscow to 1960s America. It is during this time that the plot describes how Leo comes to meet Raisa (who subsequently becomes his wife), how they both come to meet a famous American singer with strong Communist sympathies, and how their association with this singer leads to a series of events many years later in which Leo Demidov's wife and daughters, while part of a "Peace Tour" in New York City -- a trip in which Leo is not permitted to make -- get caught in a web of conspiracy and betrayal that ends in tragedy. When Leo learns of what happened and the impact it has on his life, he swears revenge. However, it is not until 15 years later that Leo's long pursuit of justice will be permitted, and will force him to confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family and himself. This portion of the book encompasses the last 70 or so pages and will have your eyes glued to every word on each of these pages. It is these pages that made me draw the ultimate conclusion that I enjoyed this book very much. The lack of consistency in terms of mystery, excitement and intensity comes about in the middle section of the book, which spans about a 15 year period and almost 200 pages, and has Leo, often under the influence of drugs serving as an advisor to the Soviets in their war in Afghanistan. Although this section is generally interesting, it "reads" slowly and mainly, to me, serves as an overlong distraction to show how Leo's life had steadily deteriorated from the mid 60s until finding a way in 1981 to obtain the answer to the question that has haunted him all these years: What happened in New York? While I would rate the first and last sections of the book between 4 and 5 stars, I would only give 3 stars to this portion of the book. Nonetheless, despite Agent 6's inconsistencies in intensity, it is a very well-written, entertaining book, and hopefully will allow Smith to build on the large fan base he developed with his first two books.

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      LOVED IT

      A little over detailed but not very much. Like that's a bad thing. :)

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    • Posted January 15, 2011

      AWESOME!!!

      This mysterious book ruled!!!

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