Do You Love Mysteries?

Russian spies working on Wall Street?   FBI agents swooping in to round up soviet operatives and diplomats whose aim is to crash the Stock Market?   It sounds like the plot for a Tom Clancy novel, doesn’t it?   But I’m afraid the conspiracy was all too real.   Even worse, the majority of the American public was totally unaware of how close this diabolical plan came to succeeding, much less what it means to the security of the country’s financial markets.

By Carl Austin Image courtesy flickr As many of you know, I set most of my novels in San Francisco.  While doing research for one of them, I happened upon a news story that I first thought was fake news.  After a little digging, I came to realize it was all too real.  The story involves an upscale townhouse just off Telegraph Hill, a bevy of beauties and an intelligence operative who was prepared to use them and drugs to advance the course of mind control technology during the height of the Cold War.