Patrick Trese

Death & Duplicity Patrick Trese

Meet Oksana Volkova of the GRU, a ruthless double-dealing Soviet Army intelligence officer. During the early days of the Cold War, this cold-blooded perfectionist slips into the United States and begins to lay the groundwork for her carefully planned incursion into the highest levels of the American government. Caught up in her scheme are the widow of a Penn State professor, two small-town policemen, a Detroit detective turned Jesuit lay brother, and an FBI agent and his wife whose teenage son hopes to become a Jesuit when he graduates from Saint Ignatius high school. Oksana Volkova triggers her espionage operation when an American Jesuit, Alex Samozvanetz, is released after two decades of captivity in the Soviet Union. His account of his experiences in Lubianka and the Siberian Gulag while ministering to dying fellow prisoners intrigues President John Kennedy and his brother Robert-as well as Father John Beck, his old Jesuit friend. But mild-mannered Father Beck soon finds that his soul is in danger as well as his life. Oksana Volkova wants him dead.