A Spy Thriller for Our Dystopian Moment

In David McCloskey’s “The Seventh Floor,” CIA bureaucrats finally get their due—and so does a Russian mole.

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH there is a mystical dimension where CIA operations officers work their recruitment magic on foreign adversaries while walking a swaying tightrope far above an abyss filled not only with America’s deadliest enemies but all too frequently with the snapping jaws of bilious bureaucrats and obstructionists whose primary tal…