Cold Handoff

A Luke Ardis Spy Thriller

De: Reid Castellan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

They burned him for a betrayal he didn't commit. The only way to the real traitor runs across a frozen border.

Three years ago, six CIA sources inside Russia were arrested within seventy-two hours. The Agency blamed their handler, Luke Ardis. They fired him, took his clearance, and handed him to the FBI. Now he restores old wooden boats on the Chesapeake Bay and doesn't talk about Helsinki.

Then his old station chief brings him a job no government will touch. A Russian defense engineer living in Finland is being squeezed by the FSB. They hold his daughter's passport, her boyfriend is already in prison, and the border is closed. The only way out is a narrow frozen lake on the Estonian frontier, watched by towers, cameras, and hovercraft, with a thaw coming early.

The engineer's price for her rescue is one word: the code name Moscow uses for the man who really sold out Luke's network. A man who is still inside the CIA.

With a young ex-NSA analyst and a quiet former Green Beret at his side, Luke has to get a frightened cellist across the ice before a Russian hunter closes in, and before someone back home realizes how close Luke is getting.

Cold Handoff is the first book in the Luke Ardis thriller series. If you like modern espionage with real tradecraft, a slow-burning conspiracy, and a hero who never quits, start the hunt today.