Defectors

Resumen del libro

Some secrets should never be told. Moscow, 1961: With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's international prestige is at an all-time high. And the most notorious of the defectors to the Soviet Union, former CIA agent Frank Weeks, is about to publish his memoirs.

What he reveals will send shock waves through the West. Weeks' defection in the early 1950s shook Washington to its core - and forced the resignation of his brother, Simon, from the State Department. Simon, now a publisher in New York, is given the opportunity to read and publish his brother's memoir.

He knows the US government will never approve the publication of what is clearly intended as KGB propaganda. Yet the offer is irresistible: it will finally give him the chance to learn why his brother chose to betray his country.But what he discovers in Moscow is far more shocking than he ever imagined ...

Biografía del autor

Joseph Kanon (Pennsylvania, 1946) es autor de cinco novelas: Los álamos, que ganó el Premio Edgar a la mejor obra primeriza; El buen alemán (publicada en RBA), que se convirtió en una película protagonizada por George Clooney y Cate Blanchett; The Prodigal spy y Alibi, con las que otorgaron a Kanon con el premio Hammett de la International Association of Crime Writers; y Estambul. También ha recibido el Anne Frank Human Writers Award por sus escritos acerca de las secuelas del Holocausto. Antes de convertirse en escritor a tiempo completo, trabajó como directivo de una empresa editorial. Vive en Nueva York con su mujer, la agente literaria Robin Straus, con la que tiene dos hijos.