Nina's Friends

by James Irwin

Overview

Sophisticated, layered, and character-driven, Nina's Friends is a fast-moving international suspense thriller of betrayal, secrets, and greed, for fans of Daniel Silva and John Sandford.

"Sometimes the friends of your friend are your enemies."

Married Russian undercover agents are brutally murdered in their Philadelphia townhouse during the early months of the Ukraine invasion. Was it a botched robbery? Or something far darker connected to the war?

Dragan Markov, a disgraced former agent and the dead woman's lover, refuses to buy either explanation; he believes the killings are connected to the couple's illegal side-hustles. He follows the trail to Denmark, where he contends with a money launderer seeking an exit strategy, a fledgling domestic terrorist, a pansexual outlaw biker, and a beautiful colleague who wants nothing to do with him or his mission.

Time is not on Dragan's side. He'll soon become the scapegoat for the murders... unless whoever is tracking him through the side streets and shadows of Copenhagen kills him first.

This explosive murder mystery is book one of the Tajna Circle series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781967223015
Publisher:	Vague Apparatus Press
Publication date:	03/25/2025
Series:	Tajna Circle Book One
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

James Irwin was a college professor and held leadership roles in national and international marketing communication before turning full-time to writing. Prior to all that he was a widely exhibited filmmaker and media artist whose work the Los Angeles Times called "witty and ingenious," and the San Francisco Chronicle described as "pithy - cerebral undercurrent sparked by sexual innuendo." Many of his short stories, creative non-fiction pieces, and essays on media and culture have been published in journals, newspapers, and magazines over the years. He is an associate editor of the Atlantic Journal of Communication and co-founded the film journal Cinematograph. His awards and fellowships include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, Gotham Writers Workshop, Ziff-Davis Publishing, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, USA Today, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.Originally from southeastern Pennsylvania, he spent a decade in San Francisco and now lives in northern New Jersey. He can be found at jrirwin.com