Spyscraper

by Q.R. Markham

Robert Gamble Blakewood, one of the CIA's top sources in the Cold War, has died under suspicious circumstances in Prague. The Czechs appear to have known of Blakewood's clandestine operations--and yet they've raised no alarms at all for years, and are simply shipping Blakewood's remains back to the US as fast as they can, no questions asked.Jonathan Chase has been dispatched to Praugue to unravel the mystery of the Czech government's unusual behavior, and the secrets that Blakewood had been in the midst of uncovering that appear to have gotten him killed. But Chase has a personal matter to attend to as well. The Chinese Colonel who tortured him mercilessly decades ago has resurfaced. And while Chase may be devoted to peace, the Colonel is the one man for whom Chase has no choice but to break his vows.In SPYSCRAPER, Q. R. Markham once again offers up the smart storytelling that Kirkus called a ""brainy and enticing ... narrative hall of mirrors in which nothing and no one are as they seem and emotion is a perilous thing to have."

Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

Q.R. Markham is the author of the Jonathan Chase series of spy novels. The first, ASSASSIN OF SECRETS, was published by Mulholland Books/Little Brown in the US and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK on November 3, 2011; it was withdrawn on November 8, 2011, on plagiarism charges. The sequel, SPYSCRAPER, was set to appear in September of 2012. Q.R. Markham has been a parks department employee, laundry-truck driver, door-to-door knife salesman, telemarketer, rock ‘n’ roll bassist, literary scout, book-reviewer, small business owner, and consultant.