The Colonels Mistake, Dan Mayland
The Colonels Mistake, Dan Mayland
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The Colonel's Mistake

Author: Dan Mayland

Narrator: Richard Allen

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2012


Synopsis

Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives a quiet life as a professor at Western University in the city of Baku. But his peace is shattered by both the assassination of a high-level American during an international oil conference and the arrest of CIA operations officer Daria Buckingham for the crime.Sava knows the Iranian American Buckingham well—he personally trained her—and doesn’t believe she had anything to do with the murder, so he visits a CIA control center to discuss the situation with the new station chief. When no one answers the outside intercom, Sava overrides the security code and stumbles upon the grisliest scene of his career. Now, he can’t help but wonder if he really knows Buckingham as well as he thought…Determined to find out, Sava soon finds himself and a partner caught in the middle of the new Great Game—a deadly intelligence war over oil that has Iran, China, and the United States clawing at each other’s throats. Meanwhile, Colonel Henry Amato, assistant to the US national security advisor, is keeping a close watch on the situation from Washington. His stake in the Great Game is high—and personal.From the shadows of the world’s most volatile region to the highest levels of Washington politics, The Colonel’s Mistake takes readers on an unforgettable ride where the good, the bad, and the brutal play a deadly chess game of global espionage.

About Dan Mayland

Dan Mayland spent years exploring the outer limits of Western civilization and beyond. He has slept on the streets of Europe, summited mountains in Colombia and Bolivia, trekked through Bhutan and Nepal, visited remote Buddhist monasteries in India, and explored Shiite mosques in Iran and Azerbaijan. An international news and foreign policy junkie, Mayland is an avid reader of Stratfor.com, AlJazeera.com, ForeignPolicy.com, Ettelaat.com, and Rferl.com, and he has written articles for Iranian.com. Mayland’s first book, The Colonel’s Mistake, is the inaugural novel of the Mark Sava series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mal

Mark Sava’s long tenure as the CIA Station Chief in oil-rich Azerbaijan has made him one of America’s leading experts on the country’s next-door neighbor, Iran. Now retired but still living in Baku, he is teaching at a local university and working on a book. He can’t help but continue to take a pers......more

Goodreads review by Mihir

Full Review originally at Fantasy Book Critic OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: This is a debut spy thriller that I read a few months ago. It’s a fresh new take on the Great Game taking place in central Asia. As with most spy thrillers, they often take the road & tropes that has been beaten to death. This book ho......more

Goodreads review by Michael

My friend and classmate Dan Mayland has produced a bare-knuckled thriller that is an exemplar of the genre. Mayland's protagonist is Mark Sava, a cynical ex-CIA operative -- he's kind of like a down-at-heels American James Bond, without the clothes and gadgets -- who gets sucked into a brutal series......more


Quotes

“Mayland beautifully captures the high stakes games played in an increasingly complex world. The Colonel’s Mistake is a terrific ride.” —Kyle Mills, New York Times Bestselling author of The Immortalists“Dan Mayland has an excellent understanding of modern Iran.” —Gene Garthwaite, author of The Persians“Dan Mayland tells a riveting spy story from the Caspian oil city of Baku. He vividly captures the mysterious, dangerous place that swarms with agents like Cold War Berlin in the 1960s.” —Lutz Kleveman, author of The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia