![]() ![]() Taleniekov visits four retired Politburo leaders and is shortly after branded a traitor and marked for execution. Krupskaya urges Taleniekov to find Scofield and stop the Matarese. Meanwhile, Taleniekov, in Moscow, is summoned by his former teacher, retired Istrebiteli Aleksie Krupskaya, who tells him of an international cabal of assassins known as the Matarese who were headquartered in Corsica. In Amsterdam, Scofield, tired of the covert intelligence world, deliberately releases a suspected mole and assaults a fellow intelligence officer when the latter kills the suspect. War is only averted through swift communication between the American President and the Soviet Premier. Taleniekov and Scofield are personal as well as professional enemies, Taleniekov having engineered the death of Scofield's wife and Scofield having personally killed Taleniekov's brother. Soviet KGB officer Vasili Taleniekov and American Consular Operations operative Brandon Scofield, respectively, are considered the most likely assassins. Some time later, Soviet nuclear physicist Dmitri Yuri Yurievich is killed on a hunting trip in the Russian countryside. On Christmas Eve in 1978, General Anthony Blackburn, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is killed in a New York brothel. ![]() The Matarese Circle (1979) is a novel by Robert Ludlum. ![]()
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