Sally McGrane

This effort at an old-time Soviet espionage novel never quite finds its way. Lots of clever moments, as our hero, an aging American spy rapidly being put out to pasture whilst dealing with radiation poisoning, doggedly tracks down the super-weird evildoers in Russia. It's fun, and occasionally really engrossing, but it wanders off from time to time, as if the writer is trying to convey the drifting hero through an unfocused plot.