KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov suspects a spy at the top of the Soviet presidium is causing his country’s slow spiral toward oblivion. Kryuchkov is forming a cabal to stage a coup d’état, but he needs to prove his case by amassing evidence of a betrayal stretching back decades. Word arrives the spy he’s after was recruited by CIA case officer Dasha Petrov, who is enjoying her retirement at her seaside home in Connecticut. Her espionage talents from an illustrious past explain Kryuchkov’s sudden appearance on the Gold Coast. Dasha remembers his face—and his knife blade—from those perilous times. Now in the twilight of life, Dasha knows Kryuchkov is after her, and more importantly, he’s on the trail of her magnificent secret agents—The Moscow Five— including her stalwart, code-named Laramie.

As Kryuchkov closes in, Dasha enlists Westport Police Chief Anthony DeFranco and his smart, beautiful partner Tracy Taggart to help keep her secrets. Her star Laramie has already changed the world, but now it’s a fight for survival. Dasha is kidnapped, interrogated, shot at…and leads her rag-tag pickup team of spy catchers to chase down and subdue the CIA mole that has placed her Five in jeopardy. But Kryuchkov abducts Tracy, and Dasha’s mission to warn Laramie turns into a nick-of-time rescue. Dasha and her team arrive in Moscow at a key moment, as citizens take to the barricades and tanks prowl the streets. They are watching the final collapse of the Soviet Union, as Dasha Petrov, wielding nothing but her dignity and her walking stick, stops an armored column and turns the tide.

Fast-paced, wide-ranging, and shaped by real events…The Moscow Five brings a unique voice and indomitable characters to the mystery-thriller genre.