The Sisters

About this book

In what Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called "the plot of plots " Robert Littell has created the CIA "legends" Francis and Carroll dubbed "The Sisters Death and Night" by their cohorts. But few know what these enigmatic and extremely dangerous operatives do. They plot-and theyre plotting the perfect crime. Theyve located the perfect pawn-the Potter the exiled ex-head of the KGB sleeper school-and with artful deception the Sisters coerce him into betraying his last and best sleeper the man he considers his son. Once awakened this sleeper an assassin living secretly in the U.S. will launch a mission of death-unless the Potter in a desperate race against time can stop his protege from committing the Sisters perfect and world-shattering crime.