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by Forrest Carlyle (Author)
Satan's Touch is a Cold War spy thriller, based on the author's real life experiences working for CIA. The novel is a tale of malice and greed, the fast-paced action of Ludlum spiced with the sinister logic of Le Carré. Satan's Touch is the story of a man trained by the KGB and still having its power behind him. Driven by twisted obsessions, he's determined to find something he was forced to abandon years ago. What's he looking for? It will be difficult to answer that question. Satan's Touch destroys all clues to his search with fires so hot they melt concrete into glass. (His arsons are based on a series of unsolved burns, done by professional arsonists who've eluded Interpol and our FBI.) The arsonist made certain his only opponent is a broken ex-CIA operative, Alec Ryder, now working for Interpol. Following the arsonist's trail, Alec discovers the closer he gets to the truth, the more Ryder himself becomes a hunted animal.
Author Biography
It isn't easy to get inside CIA. The agency is famous, yet governed by compulsive secrecy. In this challenging environment, the author worked on covert projects giving him access to the hidden lives of Eastern European agents and powerbrokers within the KGB. He shared an office with a man who operated listening posts along the Berlin Wall, conducting electronic and photographic surveillance. The author participated in the exchange of prisoners and spies at Checkpoint Charlie. These experiences inspired his spy thriller, which begins shortly after the Berlin Wall is torn down in the early 1990s.
