Termination Order

by Phillip Friedman

Gregory Moore, faithful servant of the CIA, believes he has pulled off a masterstroke by turning an important Russian into a US agent. But when his mission is terminated, he must go it alone to protect his Russian source. Fleeing from Vienna, Moore discovers every friend is a potential foe.

323 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Philip Friedman’s novels Reasonable Doubt, Inadmissible Evidence and Grand Jury spent a total of 26 weeks on The New York Times’ bestseller lists, and appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His cold war thriller, Termination Order, called “one of the best of the year,” was a New York Times Notable Book. He is also the co-author of The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning, the book that first brought Pilates to a wide audience. Vogue called it “one of our favorite exercise books.”

Writing as Philip Chase, he has written four thrillers about Bill Kendall and Ron Eisenberg and their team, top secret military investigators for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Mr. Friedman has also written for The New York Times, Elle, and The Forward, among others. He is a former member of the National Board of Mystery Writers of America and is a member of the Authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild. He served on the Board of Directors of Learning in Focus, producer of the award-winning American Short Story series. He studied mathematics (and lots of other things) at Princeton University and holds a law degree from NYU.

Reviews

[Chuck · Rating 1 out of 5]

A convoluted, choppy story concerning a CIA operative in Vienna during
the cold war doing battle with the KGB. I had trouble getting into it.