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Book Review of The Prodigal Spy

The Prodigal Spy
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In the Red Scare of 1950 Nick Koltar tried to save his father, Walter, from angry questions, from accusations, from a piece of evidence that only Nick knew of but destroyed-for his father.
Walter was branded a spy, fled the country, left behind a wife and young son and a key witness lying dead below her D.C. hotel room. Twenty years later a beautiful jouralist brings a message from Nick's father. Nick follows her into Soviet-occupied Prague for a painful reunion. Nick knows he must return to the place where it all began: to unravel a lie, to penetrate a deadly conspiracy and to expose the one person who knows the truth and watched a family be destroyed.