The Kremlin Watcher

Official Washington was stunned by the news of workers' uprising in Poland. Did it mean that the Russian army would return to smash the rebellion? For political reasons as well as for reasons of state, it was vitally important that the President have the answer as soon as possible. But who would find out the Soviet Union's plans in time - Paul Dober, a top CIA agent in Warsaw, or Leo Farel, a scholarly Kremlinologist in New York City?

Dober, experienced and ruthless, depended on informers, knowing that they could betray him at any moment, knowing too that his career was at stake. Farel had his own techniques for finding out Soviet secrets, methods that were mistrusted by many in the government because he was an outsider. And now, despite the urgency of his task, he was distracted by a murder case in New York that he had promised his young daughter to investigate, a murder that led back to Poland.

Here is a taut, exciting novel of a front line spy caught up in violent events in a turbulent and often hostile country, and of an ivory tower analyst whose work reveals a dramatic aspect of Kremlin watching.