My newest cyberspy thriller, The Mirrors, takes on the chilling idea that Russia’s numerous cyber attacks and hacking efforts could have a far more dangerous goal in mind — the penetration into the CIA through its communications systems.
To most observers, they would appear to be two ordinary people. But what happens when it turns out that these two people lead secret lives, unbeknownst to each other? Maybe it wasn’t a coincidence that they met on that fateful day long ago, on a flight from California to Washington, D. C.
Ex-lovers Suzanne Handley and Brice Burns learned little about one another during their private trysts long ago. But Moscow has the ex-lovers on their radar for good reason. They make the perfect patsies when the Russians are looking for people to take the blame in a major security breach for a highly classified black communications system that is being developed for the CIA.
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Sent to Grenada on a fool’s mission, Suzanne thinks she’s there to help Brice, but he’s furious that she’s interrupting his business on the island and sends her packing.
There’s only one problem. The Russians have plans to penetrate the Bellatrix program at Alpha Orionis Enterprises back in Arlington, Virginia. That means preventing Suzanne and Brice from leaving Grenada.
As the couple begins to piece together the puzzle, the body count goes up, both on Grenada and back in the United States.
When you read this book, ask yourself one question. Is the plot plausible? Could Russia have planted a secret sleeper network inside the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union nearly thirty years ago, using these means?
And if they did set up a program with mirror spies, does that explain the upheaval and havoc in the United States today?
Divide and conquer has been an effective war strategy since time immemorial. It works best if the targets are kept in the dark and unaware that they are being played.
But spies often have limited support circles. The same players show up again and again on the playing field. And once the behavioral pattern is monitored long enough, and the drastic effects are discovered, it’s much easier to identify hostile intelligence activity. That’s the point at which it becomes necessary to determine the best course of action. Do you round up the spies or do you dupe them into continuing their activities by setting a trap that will snare them?
Sometimes you just have to outwit the bad guys and beat them at their own game.
