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Colin Cotterill creates a new member of his wonderful cast of characters in his latest book Bleeding in Black and White. CIA agent Robert "Bodge" Leon has been deskbound since joining the agency at its post-WW2 inception. He dreams of being in the field, but when that happens it goes far from as expected. Sent to the Vietnamese highlands during the French fight against independence, he meets the beautiful concubine of the Emperor. Meanwhile back in the US the KGB is using a purge inside the CIA to recruit double agents. Can Bodge survive to find love in the Orient and see justice done back home?

Things are bad in New York They’re not much better in Saigon But can Bodge find true love in the Orient? Meet CIA agent Robert "Bodge" Leon. He has been a desk jockey in New York since the Agency was formed. It’s 1952, and now they want him in the field, spying on the French in Vietnam. His best friend is missing in New York and someone is trying to kill him. How much worse can it get? How about falling in love with the Vietnamese Emperor’s beautiful concubine? But she has her own plans and where does Bodge fit in those? Colin Cotterill is the author of the Dr. Siri and Jimm Juree crime novel series.