Red Brides

von David Benjamin

260 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Soviet Union never really collapsed.FBI Special Agent Brian Green was supposed to be reviewing insurance fraud. What he found instead was a pattern: forty-seven American husbands, dead within eighteen months. All ruled accidents. All in different states. All survived by mail-order brides from former Soviet republics - who, in every single case, remarried within the year.Brian's supervisor told him to get back to the insurance fraud.Brian made a spreadsheet.The spreadsheet was eleven pages long.For more than a decade, the women have been living ordinary American lives. They bake sourdough. They coach soccer teams. They run PTA meetings and sell real estate and raise children who have no idea who their mothers are. They have been waiting for a signal - twelve seconds of broadcast noise, indistinguishable from static - that will tell them the waiting is over.The signal is coming.The chaos, the deaths, the failing power grids - all of it is real. All of it will happen. And the people who built this plan have been patient for thirty years. Patient enough to know that the attack is not the end of it.It is the beginning.Brian Green is the only person who has seen the whole picture.The problem is that he works for an institution that has spent sixteen months explaining, in very reasonable language, why he's wrong.The problem isn't that nobody believes him.The problem is that nobody believes him yet.RED BRIDES is a thriller about the longest con in the history of modern espionage, a Soviet Union that never stopped running, and the FBI agent nobody listened to until it was almost too late.Almost.