Coercion

The phone rings and the offer is made, leaving you only seconds to decide. Betray your country, or watch your family drop dead before your eyes.

After the Iron Curtain’s collapse, Russia appears to be finished as a superpower. But KGB general Vasily Karpov is secretly working to restore Russia’s status by forcing Americans into traitorous acts of espionage and sabotage, with the aid of a new secret weapon. Meanwhile, his biggest target is within Russia, where Karpov is plotting to capture the Kremlin for himself.

Former US soldier and spy Alex Ferris becomes the first to fathom Karpov’s grand plans. Racing from San Francisco to Siberia, Alex must elude ambushes, assassins, and death from exposure as he wages a one-man war against a growing global threat and the resurgence of the Soviets.

Revised edition: This edition of Coercion includes editorial revisions.

Tim Tigner is a former Green Beret and Soviet counterintelligence specialist who switched from espionage to arbitrage after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Addicted to reading thrillers since 1994, he has been writing bestsellers since 2004. Tim’s globe-trotting career moved him to Moscow in the midst of Perestroika, then to Brussels during the formation of the European Union, before landing him in Silicon Valley as a startup CEO. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hanover College. He lives with his wife and their two daughters in the San Francisco Bay Area.