Finished: Agent 6 (Smith) The third book in Smith's trilogy about Russian secret police agent Leo Demidov. In this book, it is ten years after Leo and his wife, Raisa, saved their rebellious, adopted daughter, Zoya, from her own destructive path of revolting against their Russian lifestyle. Now, their 17 year old younger daughter, Elena, has been seduced and recruited by a wily Russian agent to help get American communist, Jesse Austin, out of retirement to speak in America, rousing the people to revolt against the U.S. Raisa, Elena and Zoya travel to the U.S. without Leo, much to his dismay, to perform in a joint Russian/American chorale concert to show the world that the two Cold War rivals can perform together and be "friends". Raisa has no idea that Elena will use this opportunity to get in touch with Austin. Years before Austin had visited Russia and then traveled back to America, extolling the virtues of Communism and Russia through his soulful, jazz music, and through many a rousing public speech. Inspired by the innocence and exuberance of Elena, Jesse agrees to meet her on the street corner near the United Nations building, where the choirs are singing, after the concert to give his speech. Meanwhile, the FBI is constantly tailing all the Russian students and especially Raisa and her daughters. One agent in particular, Jim Yates, intimidates Elena and Raisa. As Jesse Austin begins to speak, he is gunned down and the gun is planted on Elena! Raisa arrives during the chaos to shield her daughter and puts the gun in her own pocket. Raisa is then accused of killing Jesse Austin, and Austin's widow goes to the police station and shoots her! Rather than save her life, Jim Yates lets her die a slow death on the police station floor so they can concoct a story that there was a sordid love triangle and Raisa killed Jesse out of jealousy. In reality, at first you think the FBI wanted Jesse Austin killed, but in reality, it is the Russians who decided that if they had Jesse Austin assassinated and made it look like America's FBI had him killed, then maybe the country would rise up and revolt and become communist. OK, that's a far stretch to me, but that was their motive. Anyway, Leo is obviously devastated by the death of his beloved wife Raisa, and sixteen years later, he's still devastated. He's also out of touch with both his daughters who are now married and living in Russia. He's an opium addict and he's been assigned to the worst position a former Russian secret police agent can be assigned to...he's now a Russian advisor in Afghanistan during the occupation  of Afghanistan by Russia! He dreams of making his way to America so he can figure out who killed Raisa and exact his revenge. Long story short, Leo does finally find out that even though Agent 6, aka Jim Yates, didn't kill Raisa, he did let her die a slow, painful death. After realizing that this doesn't bring Raisa back, Leo goes back to Russia a traitor to await his certain death sentence. He finally gets to see his two daughters after several years while he's in prison, and that's where the story ends. Leo is a traitor because to bargain his way to America, he offers the FBI a deal to give them intel about what Russia is doing in Afghanistan so the U.S. can decide whether of not to enter the war. I've left out lots of details but that's the gist of the story. The book was a good wrap up to Leo's story, but out of all the books, I think I liked the first one, Child 44, the best! I just might read more of Tom Rob Smith's work though! :-)