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Charles Jay Tice was a spy's spy. The chief of the CIA's elite Clandestine Services, he was a legend throughout the world of international intelligence. But secretly he was also a traitor, reputedly selling information that will seriously compromise the security of the United States for decades to come. Since his treachery was exposed, Tice has been kept under strict surveillance in a maximum security prison.Then one morning, his cell is discovered empty. Jay Tice has vanished - without tripping an alarm or leaving any trace of his passing.Elaine Cunningham is a hunter - a CIA operative who specializes in finding people who don't want to be found. Young, gifted and a maverick, she is assigned to track Tice and bring him to ground before he disappears forever. But as she matches wits in a perilous game with one of the greatest spymasters of all time, she discovers there is far more at stake than an old spy's last run for freedom.Lurking in the shadows are other hidden players with their own lethal agendas and, from Geneva to Washington, Berlin to New York City, a deadly conspiracy is coalescing. With only a few hours to go, and the future of millions in the balance, she must uncover the truth behind the legend of the last spymaster.
Synopsis
Charles Jay Tice was a spys spy. As the CIAs Berlin station chief towards the end of the Cold War, he was famous and revered for his many successful operations and for often outwitting the legendary Stasi head, Marcus Wolf. Whe he was revealed a traitor having sold sensitive secrets to the Russians for years - it sent a chill through the entire Western intelligence apparatus. Incarcerated for life in the toughest of maximum security prisons, under near constant surveillance, Tice has been left to slowly rot. Then Tice disappears from his cell, leaving no evidence as to how he managed his escape and no sensible clues as to where hes going.
CIA recovery specialist Elaine Cunningham is quietly assigned the case she has to find Tice quickly, and bring him back quietly, before the world finds out that the CIA has lost track of the most dangerous spy. But what at first seems a challenging assignment becomes something more as she slowly uncovers evidence that there is a much bigger, deeper conspiracy going on and Tices escape may involve much more than one old spooks last run for freedom.