Conversation With Paul Vidich, Author of Spy Thriller “The Mercenary”Paul Vidich’s The Mercenary is a taut new thriller from an acclaimed spy novelist whose work sits perfectly alongside greats like John le Carré and Joseph Kanon. Vidich invites readers into a world of danger and deceit, and keeps the tension high and the pages turning until the very end.
The Mercenary happens in Moscow in 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world—and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer—code name GAMBIT—has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Ga
