Shoots and Ladders

The Wall fell, but the shadows never left.

Gunnar Kross is a ghost in the machine of a reunited Germany. A decade ago, a botched operation in the heart of Prague cost him his career at the BND and the life of the woman he loved. Today, he survives on the fringes of Berlin, working as a security consultant for construction firms and keeping his SIG Sauer SP2022 close. He thought he had buried the ghosts of the Cold War. He was wrong.

When his old contact is found murdered in the shadows of the...