A NEW GEOPOLITICAL THRILLER OF WWII and the COLD WAR
Based on the true story of Miranda Armstadt's parents in Cold War Yugoslavia, Austria and Germany in the 1950s, this new, meticulously researched historical fiction epic will take you behind the scenes of high-level government intelligence--where no one is who they seem and everyone is gunning for power.
COMING 2025
August 2024: Now in FINAL EDITING PHASE
Start getting excited: Expected release date is April 2025
Five long years ago, the idea for a historical fiction novel based on her parents' lives with the US State Department in the Cold War Balkans, Austria and Germany began to take shape for author Miranda Armstadt.
Now in the final editing phase of this novel, it's about 95,000 words and spans two decades that changed the world forever: from 1943 to 1963.
Inspired by the true story of Armstadt's family, it will take readers behind the scenes of real military and intelligence ops in a way you've never seen them before.
The complex geopolitics that regularly collided with the personal interests of spymasters and autocrats on both sides of WWII and the Cold War ... how those living behind fabricated personas struggle with their personal relationships (and the nuclear fallout to those around them) ... nefarious experiments carried out by governments with little regard for their human impact: it's all in this geopolitical thriller.
Using volumes of family letters and photographs, declassified Agency and State Department memos, and numerous backgrounder sources, Armstadt has recreated a world before computers, when spies and soldiers lived by their wits alone.
She's had input from top-level military and intelligence experts to ensure every detail is true-to-life.
You'll meet a brilliant but shy young man from a Jewish-American family, who finds himself at a prestigious Ivy League college--with no clue how he got in.
The well-to-do daughter of a television news pioneer who gets pulled into a world of secrets she doesn't understand.
A pampered British viscount who gets called to duty and discovers much more than he bargained for.
And a teenage Holocaust survivor, determined to create a new life--at whatever cost.
How these four protagonists come together in a rich tale of ambition, greed, passion and espionage will show you a whole new side to the intelligence game.
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