I am excited to announce that Maskirovka—The Russian Science of Deception was rated as one of the Top 100 Indie Novels of 2022! If you haven’t I hope you’ll give it a read! AUTHORS ON THE MOVE!
Along with fellow Capitol Crimes writers Catriona McPherson, Claire Booth, and James L’Etoile, I’ll be speaking at the 21st Annual Authors on the Move gala sponsored by The Sacramento Literacy Foundation on March 11, 2023 at The Sawyer Hotel in downtown Sacramento. The Foundation collaborates with community organizations to advance children's literacy skills throughout the Sacramento region. The keynote speaker for the event is New York Times Review Editor’s Choice, Angie Cruz and her recently released novel, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. If you are attending, please stop by and say hello! |
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MASKIROVKA—The Russian Science of Deception
It may have changed its name, but the KGB is up to its old tricks, only this time with a new puppet—the American Public!
I am pleased to announce that my third novel, Maskirovka—The Russian Science of Deception, will be published by Bluewater Press on Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
Steve Nguyen, a newly minted homicide detective with the San Francisco Police Department, is cut loose on his first solo case—the mysterious death of a young accountant with a public-interest foundation. Everything points to natural causes, but Nguyen, to the dismay of his chief, isn’t ready to close the book. With no motive, means, or opportunity, the anxiety-racked law school drop-out starts digging anyway.
Nguyen’s tortuous investigation leads him through the halls of Congress, the gritty oil fields of the Siberian tundra, stately Black Sea palaces of the petro-czars, and the mean streets of San Francisco. He unearths a malevolent alliance among a billionaire Russian oligarch, a duplicitous foundation director, and a renowned philanthropist hell-bent on tightening Russia’s monopoly on the European energy market by choking-off American exports. If it means corrupting the American electoral system through illegal campaign contributions, political blackmail, and a few dead bodies, so be it.
Addled by self-doubt, and with just his misfit cousins, Tina Ngo, an attorney with a special practice in feral law, and Tommy Tran, a computer geek straddling the tightrope of legality, Nguyen must learn, and learn fast, the Russian rules of international deception, all while in the crosshairs of the SVR’s most skilled assassins. His unraveling of a complex tangle of offshore accounts, dummy corporations, front companies, and shell corporations, may, just may, save a republic.
Maskirovka is available through:
Nguyen’s tortuous investigation leads him through the halls of Congress, the gritty oil fields of the Siberian tundra, stately Black Sea palaces of the petro-czars, and the mean streets of San Francisco. He unearths a malevolent alliance among a billionaire Russian oligarch, a duplicitous foundation director, and a renowned philanthropist hell-bent on tightening Russia’s monopoly on the European energy market by choking-off American exports. If it means corrupting the American electoral system through illegal campaign contributions, political blackmail, and a few dead bodies, so be it.
Addled by self-doubt, and with just his misfit cousins, Tina Ngo, an attorney with a special practice in feral law, and Tommy Tran, a computer geek straddling the tightrope of legality, Nguyen must learn, and learn fast, the Russian rules of international deception, all while in the crosshairs of the SVR’s most skilled assassins. His unraveling of a complex tangle of offshore accounts, dummy corporations, front companies, and shell corporations, may, just may, save a republic.
Maskirovka is available through:
I am thrilled to announce that The Crow’s Nest won the 2021 Silver Falchion Award for the Best Action-Adventure novel at the recent Killer Nashville Mystery and Thriller Writers Conference. Totally unexpected and I thank the judges, Clay Stafford, and all the Killer Nashville staff. |
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