True Account

TRUE ACCOUNT

A Will Sutter Novel

Book One of The Honest Man Series

MJ Hawke

In the intelligence business, the truth is supposed to be the one thing nobody can afford to tell.

Will Sutter is different.

A CIA case officer operating in Moscow, Sutter has built an unconventional career around a quality his profession struggles to understand: an almost complete inability to manufacture a convincing lie.

His methods are unusual. His instincts are difficult to measure. And his superiors have never entirely decided whether he is one of the Agencys most valuable assets or one of its greatest liabilities.

When a carefully cultivated intelligence source warns him that a sensitive Russian transport allocation file has attracted the attention of internal security, Sutter finds himself drawn into an increasingly dangerous intelligence operation.

Then he meets Mira Volkova.

A records clerk with her own complicated relationship with the machinery of the Russian state, Mira possesses something Sutter cannot easily quantify: a reason to trust him.

As the operation expands, professional boundaries begin to collapse. A young woman becomes caught in the consequences, institutional loyalties are tested, and Sutter discovers that protecting the people who trust him may require decisions his own organisation will never fully understand.

With Russian counterintelligence closing in and his own superiors questioning his judgment, Sutter must rely on the one instrument he has always trusted.

The truth.

But in a world built on deception, the truth can be the most dangerous weapon of all.

TRUE ACCOUNT

The first novel in MJ Hawkes The Honest Man series.

An intelligent, character-driven espionage thriller about loyalty, deception, intelligence operations and the human cost of doing the right thing.