The Man in Red Square by Bill Moody
Skip to main content. We're sorry, something went wrong. About this product Description The year is The liberal reforms of Czechoslovakia's new leader, Alexander Dubcek, have outraged the Kremlin and w, , Warsaw Pact forces are amassed on the borders.
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For American intelligence, the situation is worsened when their prime source, Josef Blaha, threatens to cut them off unless one demand is met: His invitation to the Prague Jazz festival gives him perfect cover and access to Prague. But Williams is a musician, t a spy and has other ideas that force Curtis to resort to blackmail to get the young musician to accept what Curtis calls a simple pickup and delivery.
It starts to go wrong when Williams finds Blaha murdered by the KGB and he's left to unravel the puzzle on his own. What he finds is even more than Curtis bargained for.
With the help of Blaha's beautiful granddaughter Lena, Williams races against time to warn Dubcek of the impending invasion and uncover a traitor in the US Embassy. Publication Data Country of Publication.
Show more Show less. No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Czechmate was based on my experience in Prague playing at the International Jazz Festival and later, being present during the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August There had been a number of rejections before this almost sale, despite what I was convinced I had created something truly unique: This publisher seemed ideal, The owner had defected after the invasion and received my manuscript with a warm letter of acceptance, noting the authenticity of the subject.
The book was scheduled for publication in early , and was listed in Books in Print, but before it went to press, SOS burned to the ground.
Czechmate : TheSpy Who Played Jazz by Bill Moody (2012, Paperback)
With an insurance investigation and various other legal hurdles, it was over a year before I got the rights back. By then SOS was out of business, and I was back to square one in my search for a publisher. I tried a number of other publishers but there were no takers. I rewrote the book several times, and finally put the manuscript aside.
Again, I had a good source, did a great deal of research on spy exchanges. Again I thought I had a unique slant on spy thrillers, that something editors and agents always talk about.
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I collected a number of rejections from agents and publishers alike but I kept trying until a major political event brought everything to a halt. I put his one aside as well. As the years went by, I tried my hand at a straight mystery.