# The Mercenary

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- Book: [The Mercenary](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-vidich/the-mercenary) ([The Mercenary.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-vidich/the-mercenary.md))
- Authors: [Paul Vidich](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-vidich)
- Publisher: No Exit Press
- ISBN: 978-08-5730-445-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2021-03-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing - and always dangerous - USSR in the mid-1980s. Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world - and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer - code name GAMBIT - has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who defected to the American side