A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Medal WinnerA 2024 IPPY Award Bronze Medal Winner[An] enjoyable comic fable . . .Wall Street JournalThis auspicious debut announces a bright new voice in comic suspense.Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewNot every fishmonger can be a secret agent.Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who answers a phone call meant for a secret agent and stumbles into a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. Recruited by the Ministry of Security, he is sent on assignment to safeguard the king.But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the alluring femme fatale Agent Zelle, isplanning not to protect the king but to assassinate him. Caught in a web of plot and counterplot, confusing loyalties, and explosive betrayals, Orlov finds himself on trial for murder. Given the opportunity to clear his name, he finds that the lives of his friends, mother, and fellow citizens hang in the balance.

Binding: Hardback;240 pages; Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLC; Classification: FH; Weight: 648 g; Dimensions: 148 x 224 x 27

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