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Title details for The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos - Available

The Bitter Past

#1 in series

by Bruce Borgos
James Babson
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Sheriff Porter Beck's life in the high desert of Nevada is relatively quiet until an old retired FBI agent is found tortured and murdered. Clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age and a long-ago, all-butforgotten Russian spy.
Porter Beck left Lincoln County to join the Army, where he worked deep in the shadows of far-off places. Now he's back, doing the same lawman's job his father did for decades until he started to develop dementia. There's not much violent crime in Lincoln County, making this murder stand out, and
when the FBI comes calling—in the person of the alluring Agent Sana Locke—Beck knows that there's something much bigger going on.
To catch the killer, Beck must first find the KGB agent who came to steal America's secrets sixty years earlier. With the somewhat complicated help of his very complicated stepsister, Brinley, and the unexpected intrusion of his own intelligence past, Beck must unravel the truth about that KGB agent and
the world's first dirty bomb, two things the United States government cannot afford to have revealed. As the body count climbs, so do the stakes for him and those he loves, especially when that alluring federal agent makes it impossible to know who can and can't be trusted.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Sheriff Porter Beck

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 18, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705095102
      • File size: 288825 KB
      • Duration: 10:01:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 15, 2023
      Borgos’s atmospheric debut, the start of a series focused on Nevada sheriff Porter Beck, is a clever, spy-flavored mystery. Forced to retire from the Army for medical reasons, Beck has returned home to Lincoln County, Nev., to help care for his dementia-stricken father. Beck’s expertise on Russia from his military service proves unexpectedly useful when he’s called to investigate the gruesome murder of retired FBI agent Ralph Atterbury. The assailant tied Atterbury to his recliner, skinned his extremities, pulled out his teeth, and blowtorched his face. Beck is sure that the killing wasn’t random, a conviction buttressed by the arrival of Sana Locke, whom the FBI has sent from D.C. to help him investigate. Locke shares that, in the 1950s, the KGB sent a spy to Nevada to learn about the atomic testing program being run near Lincoln County. In the ’60s, the operative began cooperating with U.S. intelligence—and Atterbury was the Russian double agent’s last FBI handler. In toggling timelines, Borgos paints a vivid picture of midcentury Cold War espionage and slowly reveals how its consequences reverberate to the present. Intelligent storytelling and well-drawn characters bode well for future series entries. Agent: Janet Reid, Janet Reid Literary.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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