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  “We were so close to getting killed,” she said. “I haven’t stopped thinking about it. We could’ve easily been in that grave.”

  “But thanks to you and your team here, we weren’t,” Maddux said. “Don’t focus on the what-ifs of the past—think about the what-ifs of the future.”

  Maddux gave her another kiss and then winked before turning and walking out the door. He was still proud to serve his country, but he was going to get more answers about his father, one way or another.

  THE END

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Starting a new series is always frightening territory for an author. Until readers start tearing into a story, I always wonder if they are going to resonate with my characters and with the storyline. So far, the feedback I’ve received on the first book in the Ed Maddux series has been encouraging, and I hope that continues as the series progresses.

  The bulk of my research for this novel took place at the National Archives, and I’m incredibly grateful to Steven Hamilton for his direction there. Finding these CIA papers from the 1960s wasn’t easy, and I doubt I would’ve ever thought to look for them had it not been for him.

  As usual, I appreciate the editing skills of Krystal Wade in making sure this book isn’t riddled with mistakes.

  And as always, I must thank my wife for listening to me babble on about espionage while I worked away on crafting this story.

  Last but not least, I want to thank you, the reader, for supporting my work. I hope you enjoyed reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  R.J. PATTERSON is an award-winning writer living in southeastern Idaho. He first began his illustrious writing career as a sports journalist, recording his exploits on the soccer fields in England as a young boy. Then when his father told him that people would pay him to watch sports if he would write about what he saw, he went all in. He landed his first writing job at age 15 as a sports writer for a daily newspaper in Orangeburg, S.C. He later attended earned a degree in newspaper journalism from the University of Georgia, where he took a job covering high school sports for the award-winning Athens Banner-Herald and Daily News.

  He later became the sports editor of The Valdosta Daily Times before working in the magazine world as an editor and freelance journalist. He has won numerous writing awards, including a national award for his investigative reporting on a sordid tale surrounding an NCAA investigation over the University of Georgia football program.

  R.J. enjoys the great outdoors of the Northwest while living there with his wife and three children. He still follows sports closely.

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  The Man from Leningrad

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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