Chief of Station (2024)
Chief of Station
”A former CIA Station Chief investigates his wife's death, uncovering a conspiracy with an unlikely ally.”
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After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
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