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EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD by Ace Atkins
It’s 1985, and 14-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced that his mom’s new boyfriend is a Russian agent. He thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. After another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits a has-been pulp writer and muckraker, along with his drag performer buddy, Jackie Demure. Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman. Meanwhile, Sylvia Weaver, a young, Black FBI agent, investigates Scientific Atlanta in the wake of the employee’s murder and discovers a nest of Russian spies in the city. Little does she know that her investigation is being thwarted by a seriously compromised colleague in Washington, D.C., who is in league with a lovesick, hypochondriac KGB defector who is playing both sides of the Cold War to his benefit.
