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David McCloskey


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David McCloskey is the author of the novels Damascus Station, Moscow X, The Seventh Floor, and The Persian, and is cohost of the podcast The Rest Is Classified. A former CIA analyst, he worked at Langley and in field stations across the Middle East. He lives in Texas.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 39,672 ratings · 2,728 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
Damascus Station
4.17 avg rating — 21,489 ratings — published 2021
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Moscow X
4.21 avg rating — 10,563 ratings — published 2023 — 25 editions
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The Seventh Floor
4.16 avg rating — 6,762 ratings — published 2025 — 13 editions
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The Persian
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La Petite Boîte noire (nouv...
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“Minus the grinding poverty and the terror, of course.”
― David McCloskey, Damascus Station
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“Only the worst mental cases—the sociopaths and megalomaniacs—didn’t sweat the treason.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor
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“And it turned out the grocer’s daughter from Grafton could not write so good.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor
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