The Rubicon Gambit

Five years after the Crypto AG scandal shook the world, retired CIA officer Marta Keller believes she has left the Rubicon operation behind. But when a whistleblower surfaces with evidence that the successor company is still selling compromised devices to NATO allies—and that a rogue BND faction is using them to blackmail Greece—Marta is dragged back into the shadows she helped create. As the Swiss parliament debates a new oversight law, and the US pressures Switzerland to bury the story, Marta must confront her own role in the betrayal. With a determined prosecutor, a journalist carrying her father's legacy, and a BND deputy director willing to kill to protect his secrets, the truth becomes a weapon that could shatter the Western alliance. And in the background, China has quietly acquired the same technology, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. In a world where every communication is suspect, Marta must decide: expose the truth and risk a new Cold War, or let the lies continue—and lose her soul.