he spent a career
inside intelligence.
now he writes it.
MI5 AND MI6
the berlin truce
Berlin. Christmas 1979. The truce is over.
Mike Peterson crosses into East Germany at night and sees what no American was meant to see: Soviet tanks gutted for parts, weeks before Moscow invades Afghanistan.
Within hours, he is marked. His Soviet counterpart, Lev Leviaski, guards the same secret but needs it exposed. Neither can trust his own side. Both know what awaits captured men: concrete rooms, bright lights and the KGB.
CROSS THE WRONG LINE IN BERLIN, AND THERE IS NO COMING BACK.
The hunt closes in. Friends vanish. Interrogation becomes torture. One wrong word means a bullet in a Soviet cell.
Enemies by training and traitors by necessity, Mike and Lev have one card left to play: the one thing spies must never do.
Trust each other.
“Gripping and authentic. A first class thriller.”
a career in the grey area
Before turning to fiction, David Bickford spent a career working where intelligence operations, law and human consequence collide.
01 / 1970s
Legal adviser within the British Military Government during the Cold War.
02 / service
Former Legal Director, advising where intelligence operations, national security and the law intersect.
03 / fiction
THE NOVELS
Experience transformed into espionage fiction where loyalty is uncertain and every decision carries a cost.
beau asks. d decides how much to answer.
Beau brings the curiosity. “D” brings a lifetime of experience. Together, they explore the realities of intelligence, the judgement behind difficult decisions and the lessons David believes are worth passing on.
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