Achilles' Heel

17 hrs. 31 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Nadyozhdin

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

If we are to trust the classics, Paris is “a holiday that is always with you.” But for the employees of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s Paris residency, Paris is also a battlefield.

Because behind the respectable facade of everyday Paris life, an invisible struggle of intelligence agencies, never stopping for a minute, is boiling.

Because in this secret war there are no truces, no holidays, no days off.

And one of the hardest tests for an intelligence officer is always the suspicion that someone close might be a “mole”—a traitor running a double game…

Learning from one of his informants that information is leaking from the Russian embassy in France, Foreign Intelligence Service operative Oleg Ivanov receives an order to identify the suspected “mole.” He will have to work under strict time pressure, with only a few weak leads. He must organize an operational game and, at any cost, establish the truth.

Because even the most seasoned and cautious agent has their own “Achilles’ heel,” their weak spot—and once it is found, you can find the key to the hiding places in that person’s soul…