Spy Flash II: A Collection of Espionage Short Fiction

by Phyllis Anne Duncan (P. A. Duncan)

In this follow up to 2012's Spy Flash, Mai Fisher has left the life of a covert operative behind and has moved into management. As the operational head of the United Nations Intelligence Directorate, she has to rely not only on her knowledge of tradecraft but also on her management skills, something she considers herself lacking. Here are four tales of how she manages her organization's reactions to a diplomatic crisis fomented by the Russian security services, a personal tragedy affecting one of her key personel, a past mission that had left her with a sense of regret, and an unusual request from the President of the United States during an election year.

168 pages, Paperback

Published December 7, 2016

About the author

P. A. Duncan is a retired bureaucrat but one with an overactive imagination--at least that's what everyone has told her since she first started making up stories in elementary school, prompted by her weekly list of spelling words.

A commercial pilot and former FAA safety official, she lives and writes in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A graduate of Madison College (now James Madison University), she has degrees in history and political science. Politics and history manage to work their way into her writing.

Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. When not reading, writing, editing, singing in a UU choir, watching the Yankees, or cheering on Dale Earnhardt, Jr., she delights in spoiling her grandchildren.

She is president emeritus of the Virginia Writers Club, one of the oldest writer organizations in the country.