The Silent Sisters

Seven Russian women are recruited to infiltrate their own government hierarchy and pass information to the CIA. Some of these women have been in place for decades, but eventually some of them are discovered. As a result, several have been tortured and killed. Charles Jenkins comes out of retirement to save one of the remaining Russian agents, who is about to be exposed. Jenkins is on a Soviet kill list, so he must act with extreme caution. His risky plan is successful, until he gets involved in a brawl, which provokes the Russian government, the Russian Mafia, and the local Moscow police to go after him. When the Mafia catches him, only a convoluted series of deals and paybacks can save him. This is the third book in this best-selling “Charles Jenkins” series. Dugoni creates a hero with unassailable morals and a cast of characters whose motivations run the gamut. Narrator Edoardo Ballerini reads both male and female characters well, providing appropriate Russian accents and pronunciations of Russian words.