Frozen Gates

He has a wife, two children, and a desk in the Pentagon. He also has a codename. November 1979.

The hostages are in Tehran, and the world is sliding toward the edge. In a quiet Arlington suburb, a yellow chalk mark appears on a mailbox. Daniel Whitfield has been waiting seven years for that mark. He is a respected analyst at the Joint Staff, a loving father, a man his neighbors call quiet and kind. He is also Mikhail Orlov, a KGB illegal sent from Leningrad to disappear inside America. Now Moscow wants the war plans for the Persian Gulf, and Daniel has access to all of them. Across the river, FBI agent Ruth Calloway notices that a Soviet diplomat's Saturday drives don't add up.

She has no proof, only a pattern, a widow's patience, and a growing certainty that someone in the Pentagon is not who he claims to be. As Afghanistan burns and a rescue mission dies in the Iranian desert, Daniel finds that the two men inside him can no longer stay apart. And when his closest friend begins to ask questions, the price of his double life is about to be paid by someone else. Sleeper is a haunting story of loyalty, betrayal, and identity, for readers who like their spy fiction dark, intelligent, and morally complex.