The Tristan Betrayal

American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe is urgently summoned to Moscow, a city under siege by hardcore Communists, to find an official known only as the Dirizhor, a man whose support of a bloody coup threatens to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness and bring the entire world to the brink of nuclear war. Metcalfe is the only man with the cunning to reach him and convince him to resist. This critical mission forces Metcalfe to confront a personal history stretching across three continents and fifty years into his past. His life-or-death present-day trial is inextricably linked to a bold plan he executed in the fall of 1940. At that time, as a minor asset for U.S. secret intelligence in occupied Paris, he traveled to wartime Moscow to find and possibly betray a former lover—a fiery ballerina whose loyalties were in question—in a delicate dance of trust and betrayal. As past and present converge, Metcalfe faces an impossible decision, where success will have unimaginable consequences and failure is unthinkable.

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