The Russia House (1990)
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies. central intelligence agency (cia), based on novel or book, secret mission, lisbon, portugal, ex-lover, soviet union, nuclear scientist, moscow, russia