The Talbot Odyssey is a 1984 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.

Tony Abrams, a former police detective who served at the NYPD's Intelligence Division,[1] is working as the office's investigator for the O'Brien, Kimberly, and Rose law firm of New York.

He stumbles upon a swirl of intrigue that leads to discovery that for over forty years there is an active mole, code-named Talbot, within the CIA.

Talbot's mission is to carry out a secret plan devised by rogue elements in the USSR government, to attack the United States with a first-strike weapon, an unprecedented attack that would cause a mortal blow to the country.

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