TY - BOOK AU - Pitoniak,Anna TI - The Helsinki affair SN - 9781668014745 AV - PS3616.I877 H45 2023 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20231106 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - United States KW - Central Intelligence Agency KW - Officials and employees KW - Fiction KW - Assassination KW - Conspiracies KW - Intelligence officers KW - Defectors KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Women intelligence officers KW - Helsinki (Finland) KW - Spy fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N2 - Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip to Cairo. Amanda believes he's telling the truth, but her superiors do not, and they determine that the best course of action is no action at all. But then the assassination occurs, and Amanda is suddenly thrust into an international conspiracy as she tries to find out why the Senator was killed ER -