The Vienna Cipher: A Cold War Hearts Novel

Vienna. August 1961. Seventy-two hours before the Wall.Marta Sokolova has been passing intelligence to the West for eighteen months through a Swiss contact who, on Saturday evening, does not come. By Sunday dawn, the barbed wire is going up in Berlin, her name is on a Soviet consulate list, and the British handler ordered to close her file is the only thing between her and the end of the life she has built.James Calloway has been a handler for fifteen years. He has one cable from London telling him to extract what she knows and drop her. He has one file on his desk showing him a mind he cannot in conscience waste. He has seventy-two hours to choose between the service that made him and a woman he has known for one evening.Neither of them will say the word. Neither of them has to.A Cold War love story written in the register of professionals who have forgotten how to trust - and remember, across one city, one border, and one brass compass with a single coordinate engraved on its cover.

Pages: 294, Paperback, Independently published