The Toughest Job

Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Goldman is the son of a Jewish exile from the Soviet Union and an Italian refugee who escaped Mussolini. An aspiring expert in post-Soviet Studies, Goldman decides to join the Peace Corps and serve in the newly independent state of Kazakhstan before settling into an academic career. However, after making a deal with the CIA to gather information on the potential for ethnic strife in the oil rich Caspian Region, Goldman learns that his understanding of the world,...