An Honorable Man: A Novel

An Honorable Man: A Novel

â€œThis looks like the launch of a great career in spy fiction.â€ â€”Booklist (starred review)

â€œA moody debut spy novel inspired by real eventsâ€¦Dead-on Cold War fiction. Noir to the bone.â€ â€”Kirkus Reviews

â€œCold War spy fiction in the grand traditionâ€”neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises.â€ â€”Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of Istanbul Passage and The Good German

Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016
A debut espionage novel in the style of Alan Furst and John le CarrÃ©, An Honorable Man is a chilling Cold War spy thriller set in 1950s Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C., 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nationâ€™s capital, and Joseph Stalinâ€™s death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union.

The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets, compromising missions around the globe. Undercover agents have been assassinated, and anti-Communist plots are being cut short in ruthlessly efficient fashion. The CIA director knows any news of the traitor, whose code name is Protocol, would be a national embarrassment and compromise the entire agency.

George Mueller seems to be the perfect man to help find the mole: Yale-educated; extensive experience running missions in Eastern Europe; an operative so dedicated to his job that it left his marriage in tatters. The Director trusts him. Mueller, though, has secrets of his own, and as he digs deeper into the case, making contact with a Soviet agent, suspicion begins to fall on him as well. Until Protocol is found, no one can be trusted, and everyone is at risk.
Country USA
Manufacturer Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-04-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-04-12
Format	Kindle eBook

An Honorable Man: A Novel

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