State of Nature

She was an expert shot and an expert fighter, and she was utterly helpless against the fury that held her.

It is the early 90s and the Berlin Wall is down. At the insistence of her family, Mara Sobieski has a safe job in a quiet corner of the intelligence world, until Sergei Pavlenko asks for her help. As the USSR becomes the Russian Federation, Sergei finds himself in danger from his former colleagues in the KGB.

The information he holds imperils a diverse collection of interests held by g...