The Bucharest Dossier
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- 105,00 kr
Publisher Description
Chanticleer International Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers
2022 National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Thriller
2022 American Fiction Award Winner for Mystery/Suspense: Historical and Finalist for Thriller: General
International Book Award 2022 Finalist for Thriller/Adventure
2022 " Best Book" Award Winner for Thriller/Adventure
Bill Hefflin is a man apart— apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love
At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin— a disillusioned Romanian expat— arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions.
With the bloody events unfolding at blinding speed, Hefflin realizes the revolution is manipulated by outside forces, including his own CIA and Boris— the puppeteer who seems to be pulling all the strings of Hefflin' s life.
The Bourne Identity Meets John le Carre' s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
While the novels in the Bill Hefflin Spy Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
The Bucharest Dossier
The Bucharest Legacy (coming 2023)
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When CIA analyst Bill Hefflin, the hero of Maz's uneven debut, arrives in Bucharest, Romania, in fall 1989, drawn by promises of secret intelligence from the mysterious Boris, the KGB mole he runs, undercurrents of a coup are already rippling through the city. Hefflin, a native of Romania who laments the repressive state of his native country, has an ulterior motive for wanting to return: He wants to find his childhood love, Pusha, and rekindle their romance. Never trained for fieldwork, Hefflin finally meets up with Boris and gets swept into the chaotic uprising that leads to the assassination of Nicolae Ceausescu. Along the way, Hefflin's search for Pusha distracts him from his professional responsibilities, yet helps him make peace with the loneliness in his life. Maz does a good job portraying late-1980s Romania, a time of food shortages, crackdowns on all forms of dissent, and rampant government corruption, but Hefflin's constant missteps and miscalculations make it hard to take him seriously as a CIA operative who runs spies. And his romance, while poignant at times, tends to muddle the main plot. Maz shows enough talent to suggest he can do better next time.
