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The Vienna Compromise: A Spy Thriller of Corporate Betrayal and the Price of Loyalty
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A dead diplomat. A missing encrypted ledger. A corporation with more power than a nation.
When Daniel Reyes, Deputy Chief of Mission in Vienna, is found dead in his apartment, the police call it suicide. The CIA does not.
Reyes had uncovered a secret: Praetorian Dynamics - one of America's largest defense contractors - has built a shadow intelligence network inside the U.S. government. Not a foreign mole. Not a hostile nation. A corporation.
And the encrypted ledger proving it has vanished.
Gregor is pulled out of quiet domestic life and sent to Vienna under diplomatic cover to retrieve the ledger before Praetorian's paramilitary cleaners erase every trace of it. But the deeper he digs, the clearer the truth becomes: the most dangerous enemy he has ever faced doesn't fly a foreign flag.
It files quarterly earnings.
As Gregor races to find the ledger, he discovers a second secret - an unnamed friend inside Langley who risked everything to expose Praetorian's infiltration. But is this insider a whistleblower... or the perfect scapegoat?
When loyalty and truth collide, Gregor must decide which one he serves - and whether the CIA itself can survive what he's about to uncover.
The Vienna Compromise is a razor-sharp corporate espionage thriller for fans of Jason Matthews, Daniel Silva, and le Carré - a story of power, corruption, and the terrifying reach of a corporation that has learned how to run intelligence operations better than the government itself.
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