The Manager: A Tale of the Cold War

Spies in the Adirondacks. Lake Placid, 1982. Backcountry editor Walter Loving picks up a top-coated hitchhiker in the snow outside the Casa del Sol restaurant two years after the Soviet loss to the U.S. in the "Miracle on Ice" Winter Olympic hockey game. The hitchhiker tells Walter he is the "manager" of a visiting Red Army B-team, whose players have kicked him out of the van.

But the manager is really a spy obsessed with restoring Soviet dominance in ice sports. His lover is a spectacular O...