Grab your gun, your cigarette lighter and your decoder book. The 60’s spy genre is back and in rare form!
The year is 1964. Andrew Keeton works for the CIA’s Department 229, also known as the Cavalry, to save civilians not in the spy game who are caught up in Cold War danger. Keeton, whose code name is Orange, is the Cavalry’s most tenured field agent, and he has the saves and the scars to prove it. After the daring rescue of a Czechoslovakian priest, his long-time cover is “killed” and he’s summoned back to Washington to train on a new, urgent and unusual mission: save a fellow Cavalry agent captured in East Berlin – before he’s either killed or shipped off to Moscow and into the hands of the KGB. In the meantime, the captured American spy, code named Red, sits in a dank and dreary East German interrogation chamber before a cold and efficient Stasi captain and his sadistic underling. As the rendition becomes more and more brutal, Red must hold out long enough to save what’s left of his own failed mission, the rescue of a dissident Russian poet wanted by the KGB. The questions every captured spy asks are at hand: will I break? If I break, what will I divulge?
In this thrilling premier to the Agent Orange book series, Keeton will battle bad guys from London to Berlin (both sides of the Wall!), find a lover, meet new allies, take on new covers, learn muay tai, and face capture himself– whatever it takes to get to Agent Red before the East Germans give him over to the Soviets.
Recreating the dark and dangerous milieu of 60’s Cold War espionage, the world of Agent Orange is authentic: real locations, real enemies, and real mano a mano action!