Atropos

American agent Alan Trotter is back in the fourth and last installment of DeAndrea's ( Cronos ) popular espionage series. We find Trotter recuperating from his most recent brush with death in the upstate New York home of Regina Hudson, CEO of the Hudson Group Media Conglomerate and, like Trotter, a second-generation spy. The two are in love, but Trotter has more pressing matters to deal with. He is now the head of a top-secret counterespionage agency, and when a string of electronics specialists is murdered, he's called back on the job--only to discover that Soviet spymaster Borzov has masterminded the sabotage of the upcoming presidential election. DeAndrea's plot twists and turns in a fast-breaking story of love, murder, kidnapping, extortion and betrayal, culminating in a spectacular action-packed finish and enhanced by a wicked sense of humor. (Jan.)