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By Anna Pitoniak Genre: Spy Thriller / Political Suspense Setting: Rome • Cairo • Helsinki • Washington D.C.
CIA officer Amanda Cole has spent years waiting for her chance to prove herself. Stationed in Rome and stuck with routine assignments, she’s hungry for real fieldwork—until a nervous Russian bureaucrat walks into her office with a chilling warning: a U.S. senator will be assassinated within 24 hours.
Amanda believes him. Her superiors don’t. And when the senator is killed exactly as predicted, Amanda is thrust into the center of an international conspiracy that reaches from the corridors of American power to the icy streets of Helsinki.
As she digs deeper, Amanda uncovers a dangerous link between the murdered senator, a Russian oligarch, and a covert financial scheme with global implications. But the most explosive revelation hits closer to home: her own father, legendary CIA operative Charlie Cole, may be entangled in the plot—and exposing the truth could destroy him.
With assassins closing in, political forces closing ranks, and a past she can no longer outrun, Amanda must decide who she can trust—and how far she’s willing to go to stop a conspiracy decades in the making.
Atmospheric, tightly plotted, and driven by two unforgettable female spies, The Helsinki Affair reinvents the classic espionage novel for the modern age—where every ally has an angle, every secret has a cost, and the truth is the most dangerous weapon of all.
By Anna Pitoniak Genre: Spy Thriller / Political Suspense Setting: Rome • Cairo • Helsinki • Washington D.C.
CIA officer Amanda Cole has spent years waiting for her chance to prove herself. Stationed in Rome and stuck with routine assignments, she’s hungry for real fieldwork—until a nervous Russian bureaucrat walks into her office with a chilling warning: a U.S. senator will be assassinated within 24 hours.
Amanda believes him. Her superiors don’t. And when the senator is killed exactly as predicted, Amanda is thrust into the center of an international conspiracy that reaches from the corridors of American power to the icy streets of Helsinki.
As she digs deeper, Amanda uncovers a dangerous link between the murdered senator, a Russian oligarch, and a covert financial scheme with global implications. But the most explosive revelation hits closer to home: her own father, legendary CIA operative Charlie Cole, may be entangled in the plot—and exposing the truth could destroy him.
With assassins closing in, political forces closing ranks, and a past she can no longer outrun, Amanda must decide who she can trust—and how far she’s willing to go to stop a conspiracy decades in the making.
Atmospheric, tightly plotted, and driven by two unforgettable female spies, The Helsinki Affair reinvents the classic espionage novel for the modern age—where every ally has an angle, every secret has a cost, and the truth is the most dangerous weapon of all.
