The Lost Spy

About the Book

Jerry Sanford’s historical thriller, The Lost Spy, is a riveting blend of fact and fi ction as ex-CIA operative Cole Rider is mysteriously transported to northern Florida in 1942. A beautiful British agent comes to his aid and helps recruit him into the Offi ce of Strategic Services, the CIA’s predecessor. Searching for answers, Rider is catapulted into a deadly race with a Nazi assassin to locate Werner Heisenberg, a German Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Heisenberg heads Adolph Hitler’s atomic bomb project but has recently disappeared, possibly in the United States. With the stunning agent at his side and British Naval Commander Ian Fleming a step behind, Rider must win that race or fi nd the atomic bomb in Hitler’s hands.

About the Author

Jerry Sanford joined the United States Attorney’s Offi ce in Miami in 1975 and was chief of the Terrorist Unit and the Narcotics Conspiracy Section. He later became the Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Gainesville Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce for the Northern District of Florida. As an adjunct instructor at Florida International University, he taught the course International Terrorism. He has been a member of the Mystery Writers of America since 1986 and served as a member of the board of directors of the MWA Florida Chapter for four years. He is also a member of the International Thriller Writers. Jerry’s fi rst novel, Miami Heat (St. Martin’s Press), is a spy thriller about an FBI counterintelligence agent who foils a Russian plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.