The Cold Room

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Six years ago, Daniel Croft buried a man he loved. The grave just sent word it was never a grave.

Croft is finished — discredited, cast out, watched but never quite taken, living out the grey afterlife of a man who told the truth to the wrong people. Then a photograph reaches him with a date that cannot be true, and a face at its edge that has been dead for six years.

ORION is alive. The source Croft ran, and lost, and grieved has been kept all this time in a room on the cold northern edge of Moscow — a room the maps have been told to forget — held by Russia's own hand for reasons no one will name. To reach him, Croft must go back into the country that finished him: no service behind him, no cover the other side doesn't already own, and a face that city has been warned to watch.

But Croft is not the only one moving toward the cold room. A grey man is already on the road — patient, invisible, unhurried — sent to close a pair of eyes that were never meant to open again. And what ORION knows will not set Croft free. It will only show him how far back the lie was laid, and how much closer to home.

The Cold Room is the second novel in The Daniel Croft Files — a cold, human, patient story of the secret world and the people it uses up.

For readers who like their espionage slow-burning, literary, and merciless.