The Venona Cable, Brent Ghelfi
The Venona Cable, Brent Ghelfi
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The Venona Cable
A Thriller

Author: Brent Ghelfi

Series: Volk #3

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/02/2010

Synopsis

The past erupts into the present when the police arrest Alexei Volkovoy, known as Volk, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport and take him to a murder scene. At first, the dead man appears to be just one more victim of Moscow'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—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'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's illustrious father.

Aided by his female partner, Valya, Volk's only hope to clear his family name will be to solve this murder and discover how the Venona papers relate to his father's disappearance, while powerful forces want to keep him from investigating the past and to remove him from the present.

About Brent Ghelfi

Brent Ghelfi has served as a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals, been a partner in a Phoenix-headquartered law firm, and now owns and operates several businesses. His novels have been translated into seven languages and optioned for film. He has traveled extensively throughout Russia and now lives in Phoenix with his wife, a former prosecutor, and their two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 08, 2009

Alexi Volkovoy "Volk" is back in the third novel from Brent Ghelfi. As the action begins, Volk is arrested and brought to his warehouse in Moscow. He's shown a body of a former American film maker. The man, Everett Walker, has been murdered. In addition, Moscow police tell Volk that the man had been......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 20, 2009

In this third novel about the Russian agent Volk, he travels to Los Angeles to both investigate his father's past (who may or may not have been both a defector and a spy) and to unearth secrets about the death of an American film maker, Walker who went to Russia to see him, but was found dead in Vol......more

Goodreads review by George on December 16, 2013

Probably the weakest of the series to date, although it was good to see Volk out of his normal environment. The intensity evinced in the earlier two books wasn't there (for me, at least) in this one. I didn't get the same sense of overwhelming stakes that were in the first two, especially Volk's Shad......more

Goodreads review by Max on November 14, 2015

A promising summary that hinted at this being the next Girl With The Dragon Tattoo gave way to an less-than-fulfilling storyline. The plot was hard to follow and had little development, and characters lacked depth. Kudos for historical and cultural accuracy where applicable. However, as a Cold War hi......more

Goodreads review by a on December 27, 2012

The book was very well written with an excellent clean writing style and well plotted- Brent is by far underrated. But his books are about Russia which is interesting to me but not to a lot of people. His hero is an anti-hero and is very dark which is what I like since I hate the typical Hollywood h......more

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