This very short novella is available on Amazon Kindle for free — apparently one doesn’t buy the book, but “borrow” it. What a great idea.

It’s the first part of a trilogy of short fiction telling the story of a Russian spy known — though he hates this part — as the “Russian James Bond”, who is the process of defecting to the West. I won’t say any more about the story except that nothing is as it appears, the tale is pacey and well-written, and I look forward to “borrowing” the other two parts of the story.