The Talbot Odyssey

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The Talbot Odyssey
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Author Nelson DeMille
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherDelacorte Press
Publication date
1984
Publication placeUnited States
Pages422
ISBN 9780385293228
OCLC 10163038

The Talbot Odyssey is a 1984 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.

Plot

Tony Abrams, a former police detective who served at the NYPD's Intelligence Division, [1] is working as the office's investigator for the O'Brien, Kimberly, and Rose law firm of New York. He stumbles upon a swirl of intrigue that leads to discovery that for over forty years there is an active mole, code-named Talbot, within the CIA.

Talbot's mission is to carry out a secret plan devised by rogue elements in the USSR government, to attack the United States with a first-strike weapon, an unprecedented attack that would cause a mortal blow to the country. It is up to Abrams and the lawyer Katherine Kimberly to stop him.

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References

  1. Nelson DeMille, "The Talbot Odyssey", Warner Books, 1984, page 15, "You were in police intelligence, weren't you? The Red Squad".