This is a thrilling new Ben Reese mystery from this Edgar-Award finalist.In 1947 a female linguist at Arlington Hall, a high-security US decoding and decrypting facility, is murdered while trying to get vital information to Carl Walker, a 'book breaker' friend.Ten years later, Ben Reese, whose wife has just died, receives an unexpected letter from Walker, a distant acquaintance who's disappeared, asking for his assistance in tracking a murderer who is guilty of breaching US security. Ben's efforts to find the killer are difficult and disturbing due to an injury inflicted by them. But he knows it is essential once he learns of the Venona Code, a Soviet code partially decrypted by the US and Britain, which will have international consequences...
- ISBN10 0727866796
- ISBN13 9780727866790
- Publish Date 15 September 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English