cable ties
the venona cable a thriller
p russian agent and criminal alexei volkovoy pays an action packed visit to the u.s. to uncover secrets of the infamous venona cables and to attempt to clear his family name p the past erupts into the present when the police arrest alexei volkovoy known as volk at moscow & 8217 ; s sheremetyevo airport and take him to a murder scene . at first the dead man appears to be just one more victim of moscow & 8217 ; s out of control violence . but volk soon discovers that he is a famous hollywood filmmaker whose reputation was destroyed in 1995 when the cia released decrypted documents from the venona cables & 8212 ; the top secret american and british crypto analysis of soviet messages that implicated the rosenbergs alger hiss kim philby and hundreds of other soviet spies . tucked inside the american & 8217 ; s pocket is a marked up venona intercept that refers to a russian used as a spy by the americans a man who may have been volk & 8217 ; s illustrious father . p aided by his female partner valya volk & 8217 ; s only hope to clear his family name will be to solve this murder and discover how the venona papers relate to his father & 8217 ; s disappearance while powerful forces want to keep him from investigating the past and to remove him from the present .
arrested in the wake of a hollywood filmmakers murder russian agent and criminal volk learns how the victims reputation was destroyed amid allegations of spying activities and that he may have had ties to volks father .