Lt. Col. Mike Skora, a decorated World War II fighter pilot, is assigned to the US Embassy in Bonn, Germany, in 1955, during the Cold War. The East Germany Stasi intelligence network buzzed like a hornets nest, gathering NATOs military secrets. Mikes mission is to work with CIA operatives to find the sources of the information being leaked to Soviet Bloc agents. He navigates through a complex tangle of relationships, unraveling spy networks in European cities, ski resorts, and military bases. Exploring a world of multifaceted people and events, Mike descends into the arena of duplicity and mistrust.

Norman Phillips was raised by illiterate Polish grandparents. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and eventually became a decorated fighter pilot in World War II. He was a parachutist and mountain climber. He was shot down in Laos in 1968 and, after a high-speed ejection and a hair-raising rescue, retired from the Air Force. He then earned a BFA and MFA and taught sculpture at the University of Massachusetts for nineteen years. He started writing about ten years ago and is the author of Throw A Nickel On The Grass