THE VENONA CABLE is the third book in Brent Ghelfi’s series featuring Alexei Volkovoy, aka Volk, a criminal who is also a Russian undercover agent. In the past, he’s infiltrated the Russian mob, but this time, he travels to the United States to uncover secrets that people want buried in the past — one that involves Volk’s father, a former Russian Air Force pilot who joined the GRU and then defected to the U.S. just before Volk was born.
Volk must uncover the World War II-era secrets of the classified Venona cables, and in doing so, he hopes to learn about the father he never knew and, in the process, clear his family name.
Ghelfi’s previous two action/thriller novels, VOLK’S GAME and VOLK’S SHADOW, were well-received. In THE VENONA CABLE, there are murders and violence that are staples of the genre. However, in this outing, Volk is more introspective. Readers get to delve more into what makes him tick. This slight departure has me waiting for the next effort and demonstrates that Ghelfi has indeed arrived as an author to watch. —Sean Taylor Simpson
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