A sweeping story about two survivors who stop running from their pasts and finally choose each other. Mark Russell has made himself indispensable in Washington’s intelligence circles, documenting the human wreckage of a North African prison camp in a report bound directly for the president’s desk. But his own life feels like it’s unraveling. He buried the woman he planned to marry along with the child she was carrying, and pushed away the one person who might have helped him through it. That person, Rhonda Childress, is stuck on the Soviet desk, determined to get back into the field.… Read more: Surrender on a Forgotten Isle by David Tanner