Joint Event with Nick Harkaway and David McCloskey to discuss KARLA'S CHOICE and THE SEVENTH FLOOR #BNMiddayMystery

Join Barnes & Noble as we welcome the author of Titanium, Nick Harkaway, and the author of Moscow X, David McCloskey, for a live, virtual discussion of Harkaway's KARLA'S CHOICE–an extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy George Smiley–and McCloskey's THE SEVENTH FLOOR–a page turning thriller of six CIA officers, who for a quarter century have stolen other people’s secrets, now must steal each other’s–on Monday, October 28 at 3PM ET as part of B&N Midday Mystery Virtual Event series.

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TICKET INFORMATION:

**THERE ARE THREE TICKET OPTIONS:

KARLA'S CHOICE with Signed Bookplate Admission- $39.18 (Admission + Book with Signed Bookplate/tax/shipping): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of KARLA'S CHOICE with Signed Bookplate.
• Admission to the virtual event space with Nick Harkawy and David McCloskey.

THE SEVENTH FLOOR Signed Admission- $38.95 (Admission + Signed Book/tax/shipping): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One signed copy of THE SEVENTH FLOOR.
• Admission to the virtual event space with Nick Harkawy and David McCloskey.

B&N MIDDAY MYSTERY GENERAL ADMISSION: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• Admission to the virtual event space with Nick Harkawy and David McCloskey.

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ABOUT KARLA'S CHOICE:

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy.

But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.

But in his absence, the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley soon finds himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come and set him on a collision course with the greatest enemy he will ever make.

Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in John le Carré's George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Karla’s Choice marks a momentous return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer.

ABOUT NICK HARKAWAY:

Nick Harkaway is the author of five novels, Titanium Noir, The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, and Gnomon, as well as a nonfiction work about digital culture, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He is also a regular blogger for The Bookseller's FutureBook website. He lives in London with his wife, a human rights lawyer, and their two children.

ABOUT THE SEVENTH FLOOR:

A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter’s doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA.

As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter’s closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt requires Procter to dredge up her checkered past in the service of the CIA, placing the pair in the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow’s mole in Langley at all costs. What happens when friendships forged by sweat and blood—from the Farm to Afghanistan and the executive “Seventh Floor” of CIA’s Langley headquarters—are put to the ultimate test? What can we truly know about the people we love the most?

Taking readers from Langley to Moscow to Paris and beyond, The Seventh Floor explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.

ABOUT DAVID MCCLOSKEY:

David McCloskey is the author of the novels Damascus Station and Moscow X. He’s a former CIA analyst and a former consultant at McKinsey & Company. While at the CIA, he worked in field stations across the Middle East. He lives in Texas.