”Will keep you guessing right to the end.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author
Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Brad Thor, and Steve Berry.
CIA agent Bill Hefflin is back in Bucharest — immersed in a cauldron of spies and crooked politicians in THE BUCHAREST LEGACY: The Rise of the Oligarchs (Oceanview Publishing; June 20, 2023), the exciting follow-up to William Maz’s debut spy thriller The Bucharest Dossier.
The CIA is rocked to its core when a KGB defector divulges that there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn that the mole' s handler is a KGB agent known as Boris. CIA analyst Bill Hefflin recognizes that name— Boris is the code name of Hefflin' s longtime KGB asset. If the defector is correct, Hefflin realizes Boris must be a triple agent, and his supposed mole has been passing false intel to Hefflin and the CIA. What' s more, this makes Hefflin the prime suspect as the KGB mole inside the Agency.
Hefflin is given a chance to prove his innocence by returning to his city of birth, Bucharest, Romania, to find Boris and track down the identity of the mole. It' s been three years since the bloody revolution, and what he finds is a cauldron of spies, crooked politicians, and a country controlled by the underground and the new oligarchs, all of whom want to find Boris. But Hefflin has a secret that no one else knows— Boris has been dead for over a year.
In December, 1989, Bill Hefflin is a peculiarity in the CIA. Besides being the lead analyst on Eastern Europe, he is also the only analyst running his own mole, code-named Boris, inside the KGB. When Boris demands that Hefflin come to Bucharest to “create” history, Hefflin is forced to confront not only the dangers of a bloody revolution but his own passions for the girl he left behind. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in the massacre of thousands, he finds that his diplomatic immunity does little to protect him from the dreaded secret police.
The revolution is obviously controlled by outside forces, and Hefflin must decide whether his own CIA is on the right side of history. While trying to decipher the puzzles surrounding the various conflicting forces that are pushing the people to armed revolt, he must stay one step ahead of assassins, find his lost love, track down the billions hidden in the offshore accounts of Romania’s tyrant, and unravel the secret surrounding Boris, the puppeteer who pulls the strings of Hefflin’s life.
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