Dark, gritty and teeming with authenticity, The Seventh Floor is a classic US vs. Russia espionage tale from the pen of David McCloskey that’s filled with deceit, betrayal and honor.
An operation goes bad in Singapore with the CIA losing the asset and their agent ending up in a Russian torture chamber. Operations chief Artemis Proctor is made the scapegoat by the new leaders of the CIA, one of which holds a grudge against Artemis for past transgressions. Months later the missing agent, Sam Joseph, shows up at Proctor’s trailer in Florida with an explosive revelation: there’s a Russian mole high within the CIA. They start an off the books investigation that puts every one of Proctor’s closest friends on a shortlist of suspects. Putting her personal feelings aside, Proctor will do her duty to root out the mole in service the country she has sworn to protect. But what she finds will haunt her and she may never be the same again.
This is a story about a good old fashioned espionage mole hunt harkening to the days of the cold war where the US and Russia were focused on recruiting and running spies deep within each other’s intelligence organizations. Paranoia reigns supreme, literally no one can be trusted, and each side is pushing the envelope on what they can get away with. Unwritten rules are broken, spies are captured and swapped, sleepers are activated, and people who know too much are in danger of elimination. It’s violent, intense and heart wrenching, but highly engaging and absorbing. A novel that fans of old-school spy stories will devour.
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