We will make mincemeat of him!'

Gideon Zmija's manic words to his intelligence directors spell dismissal and disaster for senior agent Major Andreas Uherson. For Andreas has been operating successfully with skill and ease - and 'cooperating' at many levels with lovely Maggie Edwards, a CIA employee from Virginia, and the former love of Andreas' late colleague, Andy Bender.

Zmija's ascendancy at home in Hungary seems secure. until Maggie finds something among Andy's papers that could ruin Zmija and his crony Tobias Zeller - something that hints at the greatest betrayal of all.

In post-communist Central Europe, chaos rules and only the fittest agents thrive. In this shadowy world of inverted truths, cover-ups, decoys and back-stabbers, Andreas Uherson and his girlfriend have to fight to survive. Can their wits save them?

Read David J Doesser's wonderfully insightful spy story and discover a whole new side to modern espionage.

David J Doesser was born behind the Iron Curtain. He is married and has two children. He lives in the European Union.