This week’s edition of Publishers Weekly includes an article on forthcoming spy novels, including THE WAYWARD ASSASSIN. And how cool is this? They placed a cover photo of my book right next to the cover of Ken Follett’s new novel. (Follett has sold over 160 million books!)

From the article (CAUTION: Slight Spoiler Alert): Helga Schier, editorial director at CamCat, has a unique perspective on stories about global politics, having grown up in Germany during the Cold War. In March the publisher will release her acquisition The Wayward Assassin, the second in a series by former CIA analyst Susan Ouellette. The book follows its protagonist as she chases a female Chechen terrorist in a political landscape shaped by both the Cold War and the “war on terror.”

“When characters are risking their lives for the greater good of their nation, the stakes couldn’t be higher,” Schier says. “During the Cold War, we looked at two diametrically opposed societies, two groups of spies with the same motivation. Now motivations may not be political, but religious, more emotional.” Such changing motivations, she adds, raise more complex questions. “Do we take revenge? What do we take revenge for?”