The Pipeline

Some assets are meant to be burned. Others are meant to fight back.

Nicole Wilmington is the U.S. Department of Defense's most reliable weapon in the grey zone-the shadowy realm of espionage that stops just short of war. Her mission: derail the "Baltic Pipeline," a Russian project poised to hand Europe's energy future to the Kremlin.

Operating under deep cover in the heart of Berlin, Nicole plays a lethal game. She blackmails a corrupt German minister, turns his chief of staff into a double a...