The Bucharest Legacy
The Rise of the Oligarchs
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Literary Titan Award Winner for Political Thriller
Pencraft Award Winner for Fiction: Intrigue
Global Book Award Finalist for Espionage Thriller
Best Thriller Awards Winner for Spy Thriller
BookFest Award Winner for Fiction – Mystery/Suspense
American Fiction Award Winner for Political Thriller
Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist for Fiction – Political Thriller
Chanticleer Book Award Finalist for Late Historical Fiction
Hollywood Book Festival Runner-Up
IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist for Mystery
Best Book Award Finalist for Mystery/Suspense
CIA agent Bill Hefflin is back in Bucharest— immersed in a cauldron of spies and crooked politicians
The CIA is rocked to its core when a KGB defector divulges that there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn that the mole' s handler is a KGB agent known as Boris. CIA analyst Bill Hefflin recognizes that name— Boris is the code name of Hefflin' s longtime KGB asset. If the defector is correct, Hefflin realizes Boris must be a triple agent, and his supposed mole has been passing false intel to Hefflin and the CIA. What' s more, this makes Hefflin the prime suspect as the KGB mole inside the Agency.
Hefflin is given a chance to prove his innocence by returning to his city of birth, Bucharest, Romania, to find Boris and track down the identity of the mole. It' s been three years since the bloody revolution, and what he finds is a cauldron of spies, crooked politicians, and a country controlled by the underground and the new oligarchs, all of whom want to find Boris. But Hefflin has a secret that no one else knows— Boris has been dead for over a year.
Perfect for fans of John le Carré and Brad Thor
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
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Maz takes CIA analyst Bill Hefflin back to Bucharest in this patchy sequel to 2022's The Bucharest Dossier. It's 1993, and Hefflin's mission to escort a defecting KGB officer out of Romania immediately goes sideways, plunging him into a cauldron of pursuit, deception, and intrigue as he's suspected of being a KGB mole. After ensuring their son's safety, Hefflin and his wife (a French intelligence operative) join forces to identify the real mole and solve the enduring riddle of Hefflin's late mentor, a KGB agent named Boris whom Hefflin often turned to as a CIA source, and whose shadow hangs over the spy hunt. Hefflin and Catherine are well-drawn, complex characters, but the narrative lacks polish, periodically repeating information readers have already been told and running far longer than necessary. Boris is an intriguing phantom, though, and Maz has a good feel for action scenes, including a memorable Eastern Promises–style nude battle between Hefflin and a beautiful woman. Though Maz has yet to hit his stride, there's plenty here for fans of spy fiction to enjoy.
