The Zakopane Dilemma — Scott Lucas

First there was The Not-So-Good Shepherd. Now, Scott Lucas goes back in time for his new Espionage Thriller to document one of the strangest and most clever thefts in history. Stealing secret documents, plans, or analyses from an enemy is not new. Stealing an almost room-sized Ultra Secret electronics marvel was simply unheard of. Lucas burrows into the reasoning minds of the adversaries and uncovers blueprints for knavery as old as time itself, and the methods employed as new as the technology allowing it to happen. Buckle up! I SPY, YOU SPY. I PERSIST, YOU DIE. Scott Lucas' story unfolds in the Winter of 1982 near Washington D. C. ARGO LTD., Currencies & Exchange, is an international investment firm purported to have quiet ties with the nation's Executive Office. Forty year old financier Sam Abrahms is up to his boot tops in treachery, thrown together with Josh Logan, FBI Counterintelligence, in a last ditch effort to catch an American nemesis known only as The Ax. This communist spymaster, hidden away in Zakopane, Poland, has a twenty year history of barbaric espionage successes, The pirated mainframe cipher machine has agonizing air defense and space ramifications, unequaled in speed and capacity. Sam and Josh must intercept the container shipment, already on the high seas. The trail Sam pursues leads him from Washington to Copenhagen, to Helsinki, a stop in Stockholm, a hellish dilemma in Warsaw and Zakopane, to a frigid nest in the Tatra Mountains, and then, through New Orleans into a full scale quagmire in Rio de Janeiro. Betsy Keller, logistics genie for ARGO, is also romantically devoted to Sam. Betsy will be Sam's controller. But this time, Betsy, razor-sharp, totally in love, almost misses it. And Sam, this time? Damn, but life can be full of surprises. Deadly too....