August Wolf

ABOUT AUGUST WOLF

August Wolf is old, sick, heavily medicated, and living out what remains of his life inside the deteriorating walls of Shady Trails Care Center.

To most of the staff, he is simply another mentally confused resident—a forgotten man whose strange stories belong to a damaged mind.

Then the medication wears off.

In those rare moments of clarity, August Wolf remembers.

He remembers Moscow. He remembers the Soviet Union. He remembers intelligence operations, powerful people, the Manhattan Project, and obligations to Mother Russia that apparently never ended.

Most disturbingly, he insists that he was KGB.

Jason Carroll, a young nursing-home orderly with little experience and an unfortunate tendency to pry into things that don't concern him, initially finds the old man's claims amusing. But amusement gives way to suspicion when Jason notices a pattern.

Whenever Wolf becomes lucid, someone makes certain he doesn't remain that way for long.

At the center of it is Chandler, a mysterious older man in a trench coat who visits Wolf regularly and seems to possess both the authority and the means to keep him quiet.

Jason begins listening.

Then he begins asking questions.

That is his first mistake.

His second is believing that exposing the truth will protect him.

What begins as curiosity inside an isolated Texas nursing home gradually pulls Jason into a shadowy arrangement involving intimidation, money, government connections, and a secret that may have survived the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.

Soon Jason must decide how much his conscience is worth—and whether protecting August Wolf means saving him, silencing him, or doing something far more difficult to forgive.

Blending dark humor, psychological suspense, and Cold War intrigue, August Wolf asks a deceptively simple question:

What if the old man everyone dismissed as crazy was telling the truth all along?

And perhaps the more dangerous question:

What happens to the person who believes him?