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Title details for The Venona Cable by Brent Ghelfi - Available

The Venona Cable

A Thriller

#3.0 in series

by Brent Ghelfi
Stephen Hoye
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The past erupts into the present when the police arrest Alexei Volkovoy, known as Volk, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport and take him to a murder scene. At first, the dead man appears to be just one more victim of Moscow's out-of-control violence. But Volk soon discovers that he is a famous Hollywood filmmaker whose reputation was destroyed in 1995 when the CIA released decrypted documents from the Venona cables—the top-secret American and British crypto-analysis of Soviet messages that implicated the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Kim Philby, and hundreds of other Soviet spies. Tucked inside the American's pocket is a marked-up Venona intercept that refers to a Russian used as a spy by the Americans, a man who may have been Volk's illustrious father.


Aided by his female partner, Valya, Volk's only hope to clear his family name will be to solve this murder and discover how the Venona papers relate to his father's disappearance, while powerful forces want to keep him from investigating the past and to remove him from the present.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Volk

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 2, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400193707
      • File size: 297203 KB
      • Duration: 10:19:10

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 15, 2009
      A decrypted 1943 cable concerning a meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt propels Ghelfi's ambitious third thriller to feature contemporary Russian criminal and spy Alexei “Volk” Volkovoy (after Volk's Shadow
      ). When the body of Everett Walker, an elderly U.S. cinematographer who was blacklisted by Hollywood, turns up in a Moscow warehouse where Volk used to make pornographic videos, Volk gets charged with Walker's murder. Walker, who came to Russia to look for Volk, was carrying a microdot copy of the cable as well as a photo of himself with Volk's disgraced father, Stepan, who disappeared in 1974. To clear himself, Volk must go to the U.S. to determine whether Stepan was a bona fide agent of the GRU (military intelligence) or a defector and traitor. Neither the Russians nor the Americans are sure which agents are real and which are double, and the doubt goes all the way back to WWII. Plentiful action scenes keep the pages turning. Author tour.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Ghelfi's third novel in the action-packed series featuring the ex-Russian Army commando Volk starts of in Moscow, where he is beaten and imprisoned for murdering an American cinematographer. From there, he must travel to the U.S. to clear himself. Stephen Hoye's vocal agility is impressive, and he manages the disparate collection of Russian and American characters with ease, negotiating the differences in accents, genders, and class consistently. Hoye particularly shines as Volk, who is mesmerizing as he displays his toughness and intellect without ever being mean or brash. As Volk shows off his survival skills against all odds, Hoye skillfully builds the tension, making this thriller difficult to turn off. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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