Dancing With Shadows

The Puppet Meisters Trilogy #2

by Adrian Churchward

A high stakes frame job. International intrigue. Will this upstanding advocate for the underdog find himself six feet under?

Human rights lawyer Scott Mitchell’s idealism is in tatters. Already disillusioned by run-ins with corrupt agencies, he’s framed for laundering $250 million for the Chechen mafia. But when MI6 offers to fix everything in exchange for spying on a Russian oligarch, his strong moral compass forces him to refuse the dirty deal.

Fired from his lucrative job and vilified on social media, Mitchell heads to Budapest in search of clues to clear his name. But when he uncovers a treacherous web of lies which takes him to Moscow, he becomes trapped in a power play that could cost him his life…

Can Mitchell extract himself from a tightening noose before he’s strung up for good?

Dancing With Shadows is the riveting second book in The Puppet Meisters political conspiracy trilogy. If you like desperate heroes, byzantine conspiracies, and breathtaking twists and turns, then you’ll love Adrian Churchward’s roller coaster thrill-ride.

Buy Dancing With Shadows to shine a light on a double-crossing government today!

REVIEW

3 out of 5

An absolutely thrilling story with lots of twists and turns. I would rate it higher but at times it felt like there were too many characters being introduced in ways that made them seem like they were important, when really they were more background characters (which just got very distracting). Corrupt government and a lawyer fighting for human rights is a great setup for tension and thrills. I couldn’t help but hold my breath at times, waiting to see how Mitchell would escape when the powers that be were after him. Overall an enjoyable read.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In the latter years of the 1970s Adrian worked as European counsel to a Los Angeles law firm whose senior partner had been a US Airforce navigator in the Vietnam War and whose stories sowed the seeds of Adrian’s fascination with the US-Soviet proxy conflict.

From the mid-1980s through the 1990s he worked in Moscow, Budapest and Prague as an East-West trade lawyer.

He experienced first-hand the failed Gorbachev coup (1991), the shelling of the “White House” (1993) and the anarchy of the Yeltsin years, when state assets were auctioned off at rock bottom prices to the new Russian “biznismeni”, who became the powerful oligarchs we know today. During this period he learnt Russian and liaised with numerous international intelligence agencies.

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