Chanticleer International Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers 2022 National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Thriller 2022 American Fiction Award Winner for Mystery/Suspense: Historical and Finalist for Thriller: General International Book Award 2022 Finalist for Thriller/Adventure 2022 “Best Book” Award Winner for Thriller/Adventure Bill Hefflin is a man apart—apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin—a disillusioned Romanian expat—arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions. With the bloody events unfolding at blinding speed, Hefflin realizes the revolution is manipulated by outside forces, including his own CIA and Boris—the puppeteer who seems to be pulling all the strings of Hefflin’s life. The Bourne Identity Meets John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold While the novels in the Bill Hefflin Spy Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: The Bucharest Dossier The Bucharest Legacy (coming 2023)