The Wall
East Berlin, 1989. Irish journalist Sarah Allen uncovers a Stasi conspiracy as the Berlin Wall begins to collapse. While Soviet hardliners plot to crush reform and provoke war with the West, Sarah is drawn into a deadly game of espionage, betrayal and political manipulation that will shape the modern world.
The Collapse Trilogy
The Cold War never ended - it was just a twenty-year truce
Collapse is a sweeping Cold War thriller trilogy spanning the years from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in 1999. Blending real historical events with espionage, political conspiracy and human drama, the series follows Irish journalist Sarah Allen, disillusioned Stasi officer Anton Berger and Soviet intelligence officer Major Sergey Spiridonovich as they are drawn into the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union itself.
Beginning in East Berlin during the final days of the German Democratic Republic, the trilogy moves through the fall of Communism, the failed coup against Gorbachev and the chaotic birth of post-Soviet Russia. As governments collapse and old loyalties disintegrate, each must confront the human cost of ideology, ambition and power in a world being reshaped before their eyes
A note from the Author
This, my fourth novel, and first trilogy, came to me because of my interest in the history of a period I lived through. Life, as they say, is lived forward, and understood backwards. The more I researched what had happened, what could have happened, and what might have happened differently, the better I (sort of) understand the world today.
If time is a river, then there is no doubt that now we are living in the flood that rose in 1989, and the beginning of The Collapse.
