NOW AVAILABLE:
Charles Bridge, a novel of the Cold War from Jefferson Flanders
In 2019, Flanders’ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA focused on the political turmoil of the 1960s. Now, he returns with a Cold War thriller, CHARLES BRIDGE, set in Prague, New York, and London of the 1980s.
ABOUT THE NOVEL:
Prague, 1983. Claire Markham, a New York antiques dealer, is recruited for a mission behind the Iron Curtain by a mysterious stranger whose organization, the New Exodus Project, arranges for Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Intrigued, Claire agrees to help a Russian woman visiting Czechoslovakia to defect to the West. But when the exfiltration plan goes awry, she finds herself in a desperate race to the border, hunted by the KGB and the Czechoslovak secret police, with the odds of her escape diminishing by the hour.
Learn more about Flanders’ historical fiction here
Cover design: Mick Wieland