Perfect Recall

NEW REVISED EDITION

Two spies. Two lives. One perfect recall.

For thirty-four years, Edwin Cray has been the most trusted memory in the intelligence business. A veteran debriefer in Vienna, he runs the high-value source BIRCHWOOD with no recordings and no second officer. He has never once been wrong.

In Lisbon, Julian Ferro lives as a quiet antiques dealer while running three agents alone. A blue scarf in a window. A chalk mark on a lamppost. His entire network lives inside his head.

The two men have never met. And both are beginning, quietly, to forget.

A name that won't come. A signal hung on the wrong day. A note in Cray's own handwriting about a meeting he never remembers arranging. Each man hides the lapses, because in their world the mind is the one instrument that can never fail.

Then a young analyst in Virginia notices two unrelated cases drifting off course in exactly the same way. It is not a coincidence. Someone has been counting on these men to fail.

Perfect Recall is a tradecraft-driven espionage novel about memory, pride, and the courage it takes to trust someone else when you can no longer trust yourself. This new revised edition has been carefully re-edited for continuity and accuracy.

Author Michael K. Bender, a former U.S. Foreign Commercial Officer, brings this world of embassies, cover lives, and quiet loyalties to life.

If you love smart, character-driven spy fiction, Perfect Recall is your next read.