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Sinopsis

The son of a communist spy who had fled the country in 1950, Nick Kotlar journeys to Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1969 for a painful reunion with his ailing father, only to come face to face with a shocking secret and a deadly conspiracy with links to the present day. 150,000 first printing.

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After a distinguished career in book publishing, Joseph Kanon turned to writing fiction.  His previous novel, Los Alamos, was a New York Times bestseller and in 1997 won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.  He lives in New York City.

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Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns with a thrilling new novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue.

Washington, 1950. The trouble with history, Nick Kotlar's father tells him, is that you have to live through it before you know how it'll come out. And for Walter Kotlar, a high-level State Department official, the stakes couldn't be higher: an ambitious congressman has accused him of treason. As Nick watches helplessly, his family's privileged world is turned upside down in a frenzy of klieg lights and banging gavels.

Then one snowy night the chief witness against his father plunges to her death and his father flees, leaving only an endless mystery and the stain of his defection. It would be better, Nick is told, to think of him as dead.

But twenty years later Walter Kotlar is still alive, and he enlists Molly, a young journ

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