 The Prodigal Spy
by Joseph Kanon
Published 1999
In a time of accusations, treachery and lies, some secrets were heartbreaking . . .
Others were deadly.
Once, Nick Kotlar tried to save his father. From the angry questions. From the accusations. From a piece of evidence that only Nick knew about and that he destroyed -- for his father. But in the Red Scare of 1950 Walter Kotlar could not be saved. Branded a spy, he fled the country, leaving behind a wife, a young son--and a key witness lying dead below her D.C. hotel room.
Now, twenty years later, Nick will get a second chance. Because a beautiful journalist has brought a message from his long-lost father, and Nick will follow her into Soviet-occupied Prague for a painful reunion. Confronting a father he barely remembers and a secret that could change everything, Nick knows he must return to the place where it all began: to unravel a lie, to penetrate a deadly conspiracy, and to expose the one person who knew the truth -- and watched a family be destroyed.
Praise for The Prodigal Spy
“Compelling . . . intriguing . . . superb . . . reads beautifully and convinces utterly.”
--The Wall Street Journal
“An edgy spy thriller . . . [and] a tale of love -- between father and son, man and woman -- set against a foreboding background that is poignant and imminently believable . . . Captivating.”
--The Denver Post
"Intriguing . . . Kanon wonderfully conveys the paranoia of the times . . . The Prodigal Spy has a richness of emotional layers usually not found in espionage novels."
--USA Today
"Vivid . . . tense . . . reheats the Cold War with history, mystery and a political blast from the past."
--People
"Kanon does a fine job . . . blending history, fiction, suspense and romance...but what he does the best is to turn more than a few moments in our history into a personal story that shows the reality of what we have done and can do to each other."
--Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Paperback | November 1999 | $7.50 | 0-4402-2534-5
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