04527cam a2200961 4500 2636184490 TxAuBib 20251208120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063293472 0063293471 B0DZ2YHC7X Amazon d98cb808-4178-4fce-b4dc-ec923cedd737 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11688362 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Atkins, Ace. Everybody Wants to Rule the World [Libby eBook] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. double agentthriller books. american soviet relations. mother son relationship. suspense thriller books. growing up in the 80s. reagan and gorbachev. Books set in the 80s. thrillers for women. thriller with humor. action adventure. 80’s nostalgia. adventure books. funny thrillers. end of cold war. black fbi agent. disgraced agent. year of the spy. summer of spies. secret mission. suspense books. unlikely hero. Geneva Summit. spy thriller. crime novels. Russian spy. crime books. Single Mom. undercover. drag queen. reagan era. Thrillers. Gorbachev. collusion. operative. underdogs. Cold war. politics. betrayal. survival. teenager. turncoat. culture. Action. author. Russia. writer. novel. Music. mole. MTV. Son. FBI. KGB. CIA. HTML:<p><b>Elmore Leonard meets Robert Ludlum in a rollicking comedic thriller set in 1985 from acclaimed author Ace Atkins, in which a suburban teen suspects his mom's new boyfriend is the ultimate bad guy—a KGB agent.</b></p> <p>It's 1985, what will soon become known as "The Year of the Spy," and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. "Gary" isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He's just a kid into BMX and MTV.</p> <p>But after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies—a has-been pulp writer and muckraker named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure. Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman (<i>Is it Gary? Maybe!</i>) with a serious Phil Collins obsession.</p> <p>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 Southern "city too busy to hate." Little does she know 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.</p> <p>As Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev prepare for a historic nuclear summit in Geneva, what happens in Atlanta might change the course of the Cold War, the twentieth century, and Peter Bennett's freshman year of high school.</p>. Suspense. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-12-07 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d98cb808-4178-4fce-b4dc-ec923cedd737&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d98cb808-4178-4fce-b4dc-ec923cedd737&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)