The Secret Edge

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER “NETWORKING FOR SPY RECRUITING”—COLONEL ELENA VAVILOVA OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

For nearly a quarter of a century she worked alongside her husband as an illegal intelligence operative in different countries, including the USA. Russian intelligence special agent Stella Lay operates in Hong Kong. Across the ocean—in California—her unborn child’s father is involved in developing an American program for surveillance of citizens. Moscow brings him under active scrutiny.

More dramatic events unfold in Boston, where the Rockford family lives. Tom Rockford begins to notice oddities happening near his home. Too often, unfamiliar cars with suspicious types inside appear on the other side of the street. Then Tom and his wife Gloria tell their neighbors that they have been offered a new job in San Diego, and, within forty-eight hours, with their children they cross all America—from west to east. And the FBI follows them everywhere…

Nobody could even imagine that Tom and Gloria are Russian intelligence officers Nikolai and Svetlana Yakovlevs.

Tragically, they end up under the watch of American special services and must run, abandoning a vast agent network. Stella Lay and the Rockfords don’t know each other—yet their fates intertwine in an unexpected way when the foreign intelligence center in Moscow decides to keep the remaining agents in touch with Stella (codename Dolly).

Everything is complicated by the fact that Stella must continue her work, still hiding the secret of her identity from her husband and son…

A completely incredible story written by a professional intelligence officer who herself experienced something similar. During her years working under cover in the United States, Elena had two children. Devotion to her job and the high duty to her Motherland demanded not only that she continue extremely risky activity, but also that she keep from her sons the whole truth about herself…