Leo knows there is more to the story, and vows to find the truth of things, including who actually killed his wife. During this time, Austin is shot and killed, Raisa is arrested for the murder due to her proximity to Austin, and Raisa is then killed by Austin’s wife, Anna. As it turns out, Mikael Ivanov, the propaganda expert sent along on the trip, is also working for SERVICE.A, and he has played on Elena’s emotions to seduce and manipulate her into getting Jesse Austin to appear in public and speak outside after the first student good will concert at the UN. Now an obscure factory manager, Leo knows that the Soviets will try to use the trip to their advantage, somehow. In 1965, long-married to Raisa and with two adopted daughters, Elena and Zoya, Leo is worried that his own family will be going on a student good will tour of the United States. Leo, along with other MGB agents and government officials, give Jesse a sham tour in order to hide the harsh reality of the Soviet system.

When the novel begins in Moscow in 1950, Leo and Raisa have just met, and Jesse Austin, a famous black American singer notorious for his love of Communism, visits the Soviet Union. Spanning a 31-year period between 19, “Agent 6” involves the 16-year-long efforts of former MGB operative Leo Demidov to find his wife, Raisa’s, killer. “Agent 6” is a historical mystery novel by Tom Rob Smith, and serves as the third installment in his Leo Demidov trilogy, beginning with “Child 44” and “The Secret Speech”.

Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith