The Talbot Odyssey

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^[1] 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.

References

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Novels by Nelson DeMille

Joe Ryker

• The Sniper (1974)
• The Hammer of God (1974)
• The Agent of Death (1974)
• The Smack Man (1975)
• The Cannibal (1975)
• The Night of the Phoenix (1975)

John Sutter

• The Gold Coast (1990)
• The Gate House (1998)

Paul Brenner

• The General's Daughter (1992)
• Up Country (2002)

John Corey

• Plum Island (1997)
• The Lion's Game (2000)
• Night Fall (2004)
• Wild Fire (2006)
• The Lion (2010)
• The Panther (2012)
• Radiant Angel (2015)

Stand-alone

• By the Rivers of Babylon (1978)
• Cathedral (1981)
• The Talbot Odyssey (1984)
• Word of Honor (1985)
• The Charm School (1988)
• Spencerville (1994)
• Mayday (1998)
• The Cuban Affair (2017)

Film adaptations

• The General's Daughter (1999)
• Word of Honor (2003)
• Mayday (2005)

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