An Honorable Man (29 page)

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

Copyright © 2016 by Paul Vidich

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vidich, Paul.

An honorable man: a novel/by Paul Vidich.—First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition pages cm

“Atria/Emily Bestler Books fiction original hardcover”—Verso title page.

Summary: “This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation”—Provided by publisher.

1. Spies—United States—Fiction. 2. United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Fiction. 3. Cold War—Fiction. 4. Internal security—United States—Fiction. 5. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3622.I3656H66 2016

813'.6—dc23

2015007547

ISBN 978-1-5011-1038-2

ISBN 978-1-5011-1040-5 (ebook)