Coercion - Softcover

A DEVIOUS DEVICE AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY AND THE DEADLY MISTAKE OF MESSING WITH THE WRONG GUY The phone rings and the offer is made. Betray your country or your family dies--right then, right there. The promise sounds real but there's no threat in sight, and you only have thirty seconds to decide. That's the choice select Americans face at the mercy of a ruthless KGB general. After the Iron Curtain's collapse, Russia appears to be finished as a superpower. But Vasily Karpov has a plan to restore his nation's glory by forcing Americans to betray their own. With the KGB's new secret weapon, Karpov is coercing America's elite into traitorous acts of espionage and sabotage. But when he murders the brother of former US soldier and spy Alex Ferris, he creates an opponent whose courage and cunning may prove his equal. Now, racing from San Francisco to Siberia, Alex must elude ambushes, assassins, and death from exposure as he wages a one-man war against the resurgence of the Soviets. "I wish I could give a cluster of stars rather than five to one of the BEST books I've ever read." -- Gwen Norcross Written by a former Green Beret and counterintelligence specialist with a decade of experience on the ground in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, COERCION brings a chilling alternative history to life with what Kirkus Reviews calls "well-paced action, appealing characters and snappy writing." "A brilliant, must-read thriller--as good or better than Tom Clancy & Robert Ludlum." - John Mariotti Coercion is the second of Tim Tigner's works that I have read (in as many days). Just as with the first, I was spellbound from the outset.... Tim Tigner has delivered in Coercion, a tale that is sure to rank amongst the best of today's thrillers. --Patricia Reding for Readers' Favorite "Tim Tigner gives us a grand novel on a scale that has not been seen for a long time." - William D. Curnutt This plan is very well thought out, and is chilling in its simplicity... the story flowed beautifully. -- Chrissi for BookLore Reviews "Calling all Clancy and Patterson lovers- add Tigner to your list of loves." -Jay Mittener

A mathematics and philosophy major with an adventurous spirit, Tim served in the Green Berets where he learned Russian and specialized in Soviet counterintelligence, but switched from espionage to arbitrage with the fall of the Berlin Wall. After working a couple years as a Foreign Exchange Trader, he returned to school to earn an MBA from Wharton, but it was his concurrent Masters in International Studies that steered Tim's career. Moving to Moscow in the midst of Perestroika, then Brussels during the formation of the EU, and eventually landing in Silicon Valley, Tim has enjoyed a globetrotting career in the medical device industry. Equally active outside the boardroom, Tim has climbed the peaks of Mount Olympus, hang glided the cliffs of Rio de Janeiro, and parachuted into places undisclosed. He walked the Serengeti with a Maasai warrior, worked medical experiments with an orbiting cosmonaut, and crossed the Atlantic with the Gorbachevs. While none of his adventures were intended as research for his thrillers, they certainly help. Addicted to reading thrillers since 1994, Tim has been writing them since 2004. He lives with his wife Elena and their two daughters in California. If you are an established reader/reviewer, you are welcome to a free review copy of any of his works. Tim can be reached at timtigner.com.