The Blood of Lost Empires · A Novel of the New Cold War

When Claire Hayden, a ruthless American intelligence agent, recruits ex-Stasi colonel Max Reinmann to find the killer of a Kremlin insider with ties to the CIA, she opens the door on a secret operation at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Teamed with an old nemesis, ex-KGB agent Andrei Kozlov, Reinmann’s search for the killer blazes a trail of murder, revenge, and betrayal across Europe to a Ukraine fighting for independence from Moscow’s dream of a new Russian empire.

Snared in Hayden’s scheme of treachery and deceit, Reinmann, aided by a fearless Ukrainian woman, employs half-forgotten Stasi tradecraft to survive and to settle accounts between old and new adversaries.