By the author of The Forever War: Caught between the USSR and the United States, a professor fights to create a better world Nicholas Foley survived the horrific siege of Leningrad. Since World War II ended, he has risen through the ranks of American academia to his current post as a respected university professor with a loving wife. His one secret: He works for the KGB. Foley acts as a sleeper agent for the Russians, pointing out potential talent for recruitment. This precarious position takes a turn for the deadly when Foley creates an invention that will change the world: a device that makes people obey orders, no matter what. The fate of the world is balanced on a razor's edge. As both superpowers pursue Foley, doing whatever they can to get their hands on his miraculous superweapon, he realizes he must choose a side. Nebula and Hugo Award winner Joe Haldeman is one of America's finest creators of science fiction, and Tool of the Trade is a masterful adventure. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author's personal collection.
"If Haldeman submitted the book to publishing houses today, it would be a smash thriller."
io9.com
"Tool of the Trade is a sharply written thriller based on a fantasy of power that most of us, I suspect, entertained at least once or twice during childhood. What if you had the ability to control other people's minds?"
The New York Times Book Review
"This is a very efficient cross between an espionage story and a science-fiction tale. . . . The characters become real as they do only in the best fiction."
