A Soviet-era KGB agent code-named Parsifal lives under deep cover in a small town in New Mexico, adjacent to an Apache reservation. A specialist in what the KGB describes as “wetwork” and the rest of the world calls murder, Parsifal discovers, after years of dormancy, that hè has a new Resident - and he is given assassination orders that lead him to the nearby Apache-run casino. Meanwhile Finn, a desillusioned Gulf War vet who has come to New Mexico for some r&r gets drawn into the web when hè discovers that someone is shaking down the casino. True to form, Robert Littell delivers a dazzlingly plotted, devastatingly clever tale of post-cold war espionage.
