Paul Vidich crafts suspenseful, historically accurate spy thrillers that place him in the upper ranks of the genre. His work delves into the moral complexities and psychological tensions faced by agents operating in shadowy worlds. Vidich masterfully evokes the atmosphere of the era, allowing his characters to speak through spare dialogue that implies deeper meanings in what remains unsaid. His thrillers are thoughtful, chilling explorations of the cost of secrets and personal compromise.
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.
In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman married to an East German must confront the truth behind his mysterious disappearance when she discovers he was a spy reporting back to an East German counterintelligence officer known as the Matchmaker. Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. Nothing about her marriage is as it seems. She had been targeted by the Matchmaker--a high level East German counterintelligence officer--who runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his "Romeos" who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover as they report back to the Matchmaker. Anne has been married to a spy, and now he has disappeared, and is presumably dead. The CIA are desperate to find the Matchmaker because of his close ties to the KGB. They believe he can establish the truth about a high-ranking Soviet defector. They need Anne because she's the only person who has seen his face - from a photograph that her husband mistakenly left out in his office - and she is the CIA's best chance to identify him before the Matchmaker escapes to Moscow. Time is running out as the Berlin Wall falls and chaos engulfs East Germany. But what if Anne's husband is not dead? And what if Anne has her own motives for finding the Matchmaker to deliver a different type of justice?
In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carre, The Matchmaker delivers a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband's mysterious disappearance....
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?
In this sequel to An Honourable Man, Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in 1958 to look into the activities of Toby Graham, a CIA officer suspected of harbouring sympathies for the rebel forces fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Under the cover of their long acquaintance, Mueller is recruited to vet rumours that Graham is putting weapons from the CIA into the hands of Castro's forces. Public exposure threatens to embarrass the agency and Mueller must find the truth, uncovering a world of deceit in the process.
"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" --