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The Vienna Directive: A Novel Of Betrayal And Espionage
Paperback
Publisher: Elc Publishing
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Elena Voss has spent fifteen years as a CIA case officer working under diplomatic cover in Vienna, running one of the last active networks left over from the Cold War's long shadow. When her most valuable asset - a mid-level Russian intelligence officer named Dmitri Orlov - goes dark days before a scheduled handoff, Elena is pulled into a scramble to determine whether he's been compromised, turned, or killed.
The trail leads her to a classified NATO communications protocol, codenamed the Vienna Directive, which was supposed to remain buried for another decade. As Elena digs, she discovers the Directive isn't a defense mechanism - it's a kill switch, built by her own agency to sacrifice deep-cover assets when a mission's political cost outweighs a human life. Orlov wasn't burned by the Russians. He was burned by Langley.
Elena has ninety-six hours to extract Orlov before the Directive activates a second time, this time to erase her.
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