Moscow Nights Return

Moscow Nights Return is a gripping spy suspense/thriller that brings alive flawed characters and interweaves their lives in a high-speed chase through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, the UK, and the USA. The book opens in Moscow in 1990, during the Cold War, bringing that conflict into the current time, through the eyes of master spies. The protagonist, Elda Ainsworth, cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Elda ex-Navy, a married lesbian, and semi-retired, is quietly...
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Moscow Nights Return is a gripping spy suspense/thriller that brings alive flawed characters and interweaves their lives in a high-speed chase through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, the UK, and the USA. The book opens in Moscow in 1990, during the Cold War, bringing that conflict into the current time, through the eyes of master spies. The protagonist, Elda Ainsworth, cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Elda ex-Navy, a married lesbian, and semi-retired, is quietly living in the bucolic Northeast of the United States. She has been activated by the American government to extract her friend, Korinna Federov, a Russian translator for the Kremlin. Elda is now pitted again against her old nemesis, Toshchiy Chelovek, in a new Cold War. Elda's background as a military analyst, personal trainer, and psychologist makes her a formidable opponent. Toshchiy Chelovek, the Kremlin's spy handler was an active agent in the Cold War and is the brains behind the assassin, Anatoly Petrov. Tosh has never been defeated. His photographic memory contains vast store of information across many years and missions. Trained by the KGB, Anatoly was born to be a killing machine, and he thoroughly enjoys his work. Anatoly is cold-blooded and obsessive compulsive about his tools of the trade. Korinna lives in Moscow with her husband, Egor and their two little dogs. Korinna, requests that she, Egor and the two dogs all be safely removed from Russia and does not trust anyone aside from Elda to help her. The reader travels on a suspenseful trip, while Elda works to outwit Tosh and Anatoly to bring Korinna and her family back to the United States.