Paul Vidich píše napínavé špionážne thrillery s historickou presnosťou, ktoré ho stavajú po bok velikánov žánru. Jeho diela sa ponárajú do morálnych dilem a psychologických tenzií, ktoré sprevádzajú agentov pracujúcich v tieňovom svete. Vidich majstrovsky vykresľuje atmosféru doby a svoje postavy necháva prehovoriť prostredníctvom úsporných dialógov, ktoré odhaľujú hlbšie významy v tom, čo zostáva nevyslovené. Jeho thrillery sú premyslenými, chladne mrazivými štúdiami o cene tajomstiev a osobných kompromisoch.
A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.
From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing and always dangerous - USSR in the mid-1980s.
1953: A government scientist, Hank Wilson, dies after falling from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. 1975: The release of the Rockefeller Commission report on illegal CIA activities suddenly brings the Wilson case back into the headlines; did he fall or was he pushed? Wilson's family are demanding answers, but the White House will do anything to make sure the truth doesn't get out. Jake Newman, soon to retire from the CIA agency, is tasked with uncovering the truth behind Wilson's death, an investigation which rapidly. The closer Newman gets to discovering what really happened that night, the more he risks the lives of those he loves. How many lives is the truth worth?
"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation" --