PREVIOUS MISSION:
THE SWAMP

Born in Moscow, Elizabeth Petrov emigrated to the U.S. as a toddler. After earning a PhD in astrophysics, the scientist joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

It was there she was recruited by the CIA to assess a new Russian weapons system. rocket scientist Elizabeth Petrov entered the CIA expecting analysis, not betrayal.

When Dr. Petrov presented evidence of a blackmail plot linking the Kremlin, the President-elect, and the CIA Director, she sought to expose the rampant corruption. In short order, Elizabeth transformed from analyst to target.

INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS

“This is fiction, but I wonder if some people in that most fiction-filled place, Washington DC, will feel that Jeff Grant is traveling a little too close to the truth. Anyway, you’ll want to go with him.

Jeff takes you on a journey into the heart and the guts and the cerebral cortex and the lizard brain of espionage.”

– P. J. O’Rourke