The Helsinki Affair

Anna Pitoniak

eBook - 2023

One of The Washington Post's Best Thrillers of 2023 It's the case of Amanda's lifetime but solving it will require her to betray another spy—who just so happens to be her father in this "delicious spy novel" (People).Spying is the family business. Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world—but one hot summer day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the ultimate chance to prove herself. The defector warns of the imminent assassination of a US senator. Though Amanda takes the warning seriously, her superiors don't. Twenty-four hours later, the senator is... dead. And the assassination is just beginning. Corporate blackmail, covert manipulation, corrupt oligarchs: the Kremlin has found a dangerous new way to wage war. Teaming up with Kath Frost, a fearless... more