The Embassy at War's Edge

About this book:

When the Ambassador's convoy disappears into the dawn mist, Julian Vance becomes the last American diplomat standing in a capital that just went dark. Seventeen people. Ten thousand gallons of water. Two weeks of generator fuel. And a crowd of desperate strangers pressing against the embassy gates as artillery rumbles closer by the hour.

Cut off from Washington, surrounded by unmarked checkpoints and circling drones, Julian must navigate a crisis that no protocol anticipates: a war nobody has declared, an enemy nobody can identify, and a mounting stack of impossible choices. The local staff are gone. The power grid has failed. The asylum seekers at the gate include a woman with a toddler and a man who may be a spy. And somewhere in the embassy's Cold War bunker, a secret waits that could change everything.

Taut, authentic, and relentlessly paced, *The Embassy at War's Edge* drops you into the nerve center of a diplomatic mission under siege—where every decision is a gamble, every ally is a potential liability, and the line between duty and survival dissolves in the rain. For fans of Mick Herron, David Ignatius, and *The Bureau*, this is the thriller that asks: when the flag comes down, what are you willing to become to keep it flying?