The Lost Spy
by Jerome Sanford
Jerome Sanford’s previous spy thriller, MIAMI HEAT, put a falsely accused FBI counterintelligence agent on the trail of a Russian-backed assassin, tracking him through an intricate maze of deceit and deception to prevent the assassination of Fidel Castro and an economic catastrophe for the United States.
Sanford’s new novel, The Lost Spy, is a historical thriller with a unique genre twist. He masterfully blends fact and fiction when ex-CIA operative Cole Rider is mysteriously transported to north Florida in 1942. Baffled by the help he receives from a beautiful British spy, he is recruited into the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), by its director, the legendary William “Wild Bill” Donovan. Rider is suddenly catapulted into a deadly race with a Nazi assassin to locate Werner Heisenberg, a German Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who heads Adolph Hitler’s atomic bomb project. But Heisenberg has recently disappeared. With the beautiful spy at his side and British Naval Commander Ian Fleming a step behind, Rider must win that race or find the world forever changed and himself trapped in 1942.
Praise for THE LOST SPY
I think Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's is as fascinating as it is terrifying. In THE LOST SPY, Jerome Sanford melds several threads from those dark times, and then deftly updates them to the present day. What if the Third Reich’s scientists had beaten ours to discovering the secret – and power – of splitting the atom? And then what complications might ensue for a dedicated, if battered, Assistant United States Attorney spearheading an investigation into the legacy of that potential nightmare? A wheels-within-wheels, highly recommended thriller.
Jeremiah Healy
Author of SPIRAL and TURNABOUT
I’m not usually a spy novel fan, but THE LOST SPY isn’t your typical spy novel. It’s a piece of historical fiction, a World War Two spy thriller, a love story, with a sci-fi twist. . . . Sanford weaves fact and fiction together with intriguing authenticity and page-turning suspense. Not only is THE LOST SPY a great read, but it almost has you feeling the tension of the era when the war was still up for grabs and the great powers were in a race against time to invent the ultimate killing machine – the atomic bomb.
James Sheehan
Author of THE MAYOR OF LEXINGTON AVENUE and THE LAW OF SECOND CHANCES
A seductive brew of fact and fantasy, grounded in solid historical facts. Sanford knows when to slow down and build up the details and when to push his material full speed ahead to keep you turning the pages. THE LOST SPY is a smart, fast, thrill ride.
Elaine Viets
Author of the “DEAD END JOBS” and
“MYSTERY SHOPPER” series
Winner, Anthony and Agatha awards