Publish and Perish Pride and Predator Pursuit and Persuasion Out of the Ruins Watches of the Night Code of Silence Code of Silence Coming Out In August 2008 UK and November 2008 in the US Code of Silence, a prequel to the Ben Reese series, begins in 1947 when a woman linguist at Arlington Hall (a real life high security US decoding and decrypting facility) is murdered trying to get vital information to Carl Walker, a 'book breaker' friend at Arlington Hall. Ten years later, Ben Reese, whose wife has just died, receives an unexpected letter from Walker, a distant acquaintance who's disappeared, asking for his assistance in tracking a murderer who's also guilty of breaching US security. An injury inflicted by the murderer makes Ben's efforts to bring him in difficult and disturbing, but still worth the personal cost once he learns of the Venona Code, the real life Soviet code, partially decrypted by the US and Britain, which changes the way Ben views the world in the 30s and 40s. Read an Excerpt: [PDF] [Text] |
