The Bucharest Dossier

William Maz

Mar 2022 · Oceanview Publishing

About this ebook

CIA agent Bill Hefflin is back in Bucharest— immersed in a cauldron of spies and crooked politicians

The CIA is rocked to its core when a KGB defector divulges that there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn that the mole' s handler is a KGB agent known as Boris. CIA analyst Bill Hefflin recognizes that name— Boris is the code name of Hefflin' s longtime KGB asset. If the defector is correct, Hefflin realizes Boris must be a triple agent, and his supposed mole has been passing false intel to Hefflin and the CIA. What' s more, this makes Hefflin the prime suspect as the KGB mole inside the Agency.

Hefflin is given a chance to prove his innocence by returning to his city of birth, Bucharest, Romania, to find Boris and track down the identity of the mole. It' s been three years since the bloody revolution, and what he finds is a cauldron of spies, crooked politicians, and a country controlled by the underground and the new oligarchs, all of whom want to find Boris. But Hefflin has a secret that no one else knows— Boris has been dead for over a year.

Perfect for fans of John le Carré and Brad Thor

While the novels in the Bill Hefflin Spy Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:

The Bucharest Dossier

The Bucharest Legacy

Ratings and reviews

The Bucharest Dossier is a different espionage story as it also contains romance and it has been built on real past events in Romania's history. The Ceausescu family governed Romania with iron hands leading the country into poverty and recession whilst the leading class got richer and richer. It was one of the last communist countries to depose its tyrant in the 20th century and the Ceausescu couple were killed after summary court proceedings. William Maz writes with passion about his home country and injects an incredibly well thought world of corruption, deceit, lies, and crimes into the real facts. Having witnessed the demise of the communist/tyrannical powers in the latter part of the 20th century, I was delighted in reading a story with such a good plot involving those facts.

I bought it for the thriller but fell for the love story!

About the author

Born in Bucharest, Romania, William Maz emigrated to the U.S. as a child. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Following a residency in anesthesiology at Yale, he practiced medicine, and during that time, he developed a passion for writing fiction. He studied writing at Harvard, the New School, and The Writer's Studio in New York City, and is now writing full time. William is married to a surgeon and he divides his time between Pennsylvania and New York City. The Bucharest Dossier is his debut novel.