Paul Vidich. Atria/Bestler, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1038-2
Set in Washington, D.C., in 1953, Vidich’s well-written first novel is long on atmosphere but short on narrative momentum. George Mueller, who’s at a turning point in his CIA career, feels his sense of purpose, forged during WWII, is being eroded,...
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Paul Vidich. Atria/Bestler, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1042-9
Cuba in the late 1950s provides the backdrop for Vidich’s simmering, old-fashioned literary spy tale, the sequel to 2016’s An Honorable Man. The CIA director persuades retired agent George Mueller to go to Cuba during the perilous last throes of the
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Paul Vidich. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64313-335-5
Based on the real-life case of biological warfare scientist Frank Olson, Vidich’s lean, crisp third CIA novel (after 2017’s The Good Assassin) recreates, then reimagines, the circumstances of Olson’s still-unexplained death. In 1975, 22 years after...
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Paul Vidich. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-64313-620-2
Set in the mid-1980s, Vidich’s intriguing if flawed fourth CIA novel opens in Moscow, where CIA agent George Mueller, last seen in 2017’s The Good Assassin, is attempting to make a brush pass in Red Square with a senior KGB officer, code named...
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Paul Vidich. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-64313-865-7
The opening of this forgettable spy novel from Vidich (The Mercenary) sets the heavy-handed tone: “Peril came early to the apartment on Bethaniendamm, overtaking the changes that were sweeping through the streets and alleys of a divided Cold War...
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Paul Vidich. Pegasus Crime, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-639-36511-1
This taut, nuanced spy thriller centered on Lebanese American CIA agent Analise Assad further establishes Vidich (The Matchmaker) as a new master of the genre. During the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, Analise is assigned to a joint mission by the CIA...
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Paul Vidich. Pegasus Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63936-885-3
Vidich (Beirut Station) serves up a rare misfire with this action-starved tale of a former CIA station chief in Moscow trying to extricate one of his old sources before the FSB closes in. It’s been more than a decade since Alex Matthews resigned...
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