{"product_id":"the-line-between-lies-paperback","title":"The Line Between Lies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSten Svehn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA literary Cold War espionage novel for readers of John le Carré, Charles Cumming, and Lauren Wilkinson.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon, 1973. \u003c\/b\u003eElena Vasilieva arrives with a forged passport and orders from Moscow. Her cover identity is Alice Marsh-art historian, tea drinker, the kind of woman who remembers your name. Her mission: target James Calder, a junior MI6 officer with a promising career and a wife who grows geraniums on the windowsill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe operation is textbook. She falls in love with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a decade, Elena maintains the impossible balance-building a life with a man she is simultaneously reporting on to Moscow, while quietly assembling evidence of a shadow network that operates beyond any government's control. When Moscow orders her to destroy Calder through Zersetzung-the East German method of psychological decomposition - she reverses the books on his shelf, writes the letter that ends his marriage, and dismantles his career with surgical precision. All of it done while sleeping in his bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning seventeen years from the rain-wet streets of Lillehammer to a sub-basement in East Berlin, from a Tel Aviv rooftop to the long, lying dinners of London, \u003ci\u003eThe Line Between Lies\u003c\/i\u003e follows Elena across Cold War Europe and the Middle East as she moves between identities and allegiances. Around her, a network emerges: a journalist who pulled the same thread and disappeared. A Mossad officer whose Tuesday coffees were not what they appeared. A wife who carried a silver key on her charm bracelet for twelve years, never asking what it opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo intelligence officers on opposite sides of the same wall. A shadow network neither government wants exposed. And a love story that began as an operation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 634\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50982361792651,"sku":"9798995166771","price":42.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/57rTe6Bgdk9798995166771.webp?v=1793292857","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-line-between-lies-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}