The Coldest Warrior

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'Fans of John le Carre will appreciate the backroom, clubby old-boy network that seemed to define spying in the 1950s' - Publishers Weekly 'Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition.' - Joseph Kanon 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, is tasked with uncovering the truth behind Wilson's death, but the investigation rapidly turns dangerous. 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? 'An unputdownable mole hunt written in terse, noirish prose, driving us inexorably forward' - Olen Steinhauer, author of The Tourist 'This is splendid stuff, with a complexity and reach. Vidich is clearly a name to watch' - Barry Forshaw, editor of Crime Time

Paul Vidich has had a distinguished career in music and media. Most recently, he served as Special Advisor to AOL and was Executive Vice President at the Warner Music Group, in charge of technology and global strategy. He serves on the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers and The New School for Social Research. A founder and publisher of the Storyville App, Vidich is also an award-winning author of short fiction. His novels, An Honorable Man, The Good Assassin, The Coldest Warrior and The Mercenary, are available from No Exit Press.

The US's actual deep state during the cold war is evocatively portrayed in The Coldest Warrior, a finely written, taut novel -- Adam LeBor * Financial Times * The Coldest Warrior is so timely and yet so timeless - it reminds us to keep asking ourselves just what our governments are capable of, and what can be justified. All while telling a compelling and thrilling murder mystery. -- nagaisayonara * Crime Fiction Lover * Compelling -- John Dugdale * Sunday Times * The book spins quickly into risk and danger, and the final chapters, fast-paced and dark with threat, provide one of the best manhunt and intended escape sequences of current espionage fiction -- Beth Kanell * New York Journal of Books * The Coldest Warrior succeeds on two levels. First, Vidich's story has momentum and never flags.... In addition, Vidich raises vexing moral issues through his storytelling -- Charlie Gofen * The National Book Review *