Proxy Spy

Henry Fuller takes a summer off from his petroleum newsletter business in New York to give professional lectures at US Army bases in Germany. There he meets Helga, who enlists his help to free her husband imprisoned in Hungary. Soon he finds himself enmeshed in Soviet Russia's conflict with post-Mao China. As the FBI and CIA (whose misdeeds are being revealed in Congress) work to unscramble one mystery after another, they discover that a KGB operation has put one of Fuller's business contacts in danger. Set in the Cold War period, the novel illustrates the tradecraft and bureaucratic organization of intelligence operations and explores the powerful human emotions that motivate people to spy.