Phil Swain, Book 5, Kursky Station, End of the Line signed by author

Moscow, 2006. The Cold War is history. The men who fought it are not.

Phil Swain has spent twenty years in the shadows — Berlin, Tehran, Leningrad, Vienna — and has now risen to the most powerful operational chair in American intelligence: Director of Operations. He is learning, for the first time in his career, what it means to be still.

The stillness does not last.

A file request from the wrong desk. A phone call from a colleague who has been sitting on something for weeks. A name that arrives from two directions at once — and behind the name, a thread that runs back fifteen years to a bar in Dubai, a table, a choice, and the man who made it. FSB Director Said Bersanov has been the most valuable Russian asset the Agency has ever run. He has also, it now appears, been running something of his own.

As the walls close in from both sides — a security inquiry opening inside Langley, a technical monitoring queue accumulating in Moscow, and a channel that has produced fifteen years of results now threatening to surface everything it was built to protect — Phil and Tatiyana Druyanova find themselves at the center of a crisis that began in 1989 and has been building ever since.

Kursky Station is the fifth and final novel in the Phil Swain Series — a reckoning twenty years in the making, and the story of two people who crossed a line together and spent everything they had to stay on the right side of it.