Books in the The Chopin Trilogy series

War of the Nocturne's Widow is the third installment of the Chopin Trilogy, after "The Willow's Bend" and "Chasing the Winter's Wind."The novel opens with a feud developing between the CIA and MI6 over a missing agent. Jack Trellis, the Deputy Director of Operations for the CIA is searching for his agent Diane "The Huntress" Sterling. He fears that Diane has obtained information which could bring his most highly guarded secret of the Cold War to light - the operation "Osiris" run by the East German double agent "Erasmus." Trellis suspects that Britain's Secret Service (MI6) is harboring Diane, and threatens an all-out war between the two intelligence services.This book explores the post WWII creation of one of history's most repressive regimes - The Stasi State Security Ministry of East Germany. This intriguing tale entwines with the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the exfiltration of "Osprey" (an even more secretive and highly placed spy within the Warsaw Pact leadership) and the events leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.

CHASING THE WINTER"S WIND is the sequel to THE WILLOW'S BEND and the second book of THE CHOPIN TRILOGY. Stanley Wisniewski is on the run in Europe from none other than his old employer - the Central Intelligence Agency. Stanley carries many secrets tha the Deputy Director of Operations, Jack Trellis, desperately wants to never come to the light of day. In order to catch Stanley, Trellis calls on the woman that Stanley himself had trained, Diane Sterling. She is known as "The Huntress" in Agency circles for never having failed to catch anyone she lays her sights upon. The excitement mounts as Stanley evades his former protege as he heads west from Warsaw to Vienna, Milan, and ultimately Paris. But neither Diane nor Stanley are aware that Jack Trellis has inserted a special ops agent within Diane's team to take Stanley out as soon as Diane locates her old mentor.