The Talbot Odyssey is a 1984 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.
Plot Tony Abrams, a former police detective who served at the NYPD's Intelligence Division,Nelson DeMille, "The Talbot Odyssey", Warner Books, 1984, page 15, "You were in police intelligence, weren't you? The Red Squad". is working as the office's investigator for the O'Brien, Kimberly, and Rose law firm of New York. He stumbles upon a swirl of intrigue that leads to discovery that for over forty years there is an active mole, code-named Talbot, within the CIA.
Talbot's mission is to carry out a secret plan devised by rogue elements in the USSR government, to attack the United States with a first-strike weapon, an unprecedented attack that would cause a mortal blow to the country. It is up to Abrams and the lawyer Katherine Kimberly to stop him.
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