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  • "We
  • have
  • him.”
  • Those
  • three
  • words
  • spoken
  • by
  • his
  • friend
  • Sergei
  • Mycoff
  • changed
  • Rusty’s
  • life
  • forever.
  • He
  • had
  • no
  • other
  • choice
  • but
  • to
  • fly
  • to
  • Europe
  • to
  • unravel
  • a
  • twenty-five
  • year
  • old
  • mystery.
  • But
  • he
  • was
  • not
  • prepared
  • for
  • the
  • near
  • death
  • adventure
  • that
  • would
  • lead
  • him
  • across
  • Western
  • Europe
  • into
  • the
  • Communist
  • Zone
  • of
  • East
  • Germany
  • to
  • the
  • town
  • of
  • Sonneberg.Return
  • to
  • Sonneberg
  • is
  • a
  • novel
  • based
  • on
  • an
  • episode
  • in
  • the
  • life
  • of
  • John
  • “Rusty”
  • Russell
  • a
  • U.
  • S.
  • State
  • Department
  • diplomat
  • who
  • is
  • unwittingly
  • pulled
  • into
  • a
  • scheme
  • to
  • return
  • a
  • spy,
  • who
  • was
  • thought
  • to
  • have
  • been
  • dead
  • for
  • twenty-five
  • years,
  • from
  • Russia
  • to
  • the
  • United
  • States.The
  • year
  • is
  • 1988,
  • a
  • time
  • of
  • new
  • relations
  • between
  • the
  • Soviet
  • Union
  • and
  • the
  • United
  • States.
  • Rusty
  • is
  • stationed
  • at
  • the
  • U.S.
  • State
  • Department
  • in
  • Washington,
  • D.C.
  • and
  • working
  • in
  • the
  • fray
  • of
  • the
  • fast
  • moving
  • developments
  • between
  • the
  • United
  • States
  • and
  • the
  • Russians.
  • The
  • future
  • of
  • the
  • new
  • relationship
  • between
  • the
  • two
  • countries
  • depends
  • on
  • the
  • outcome
  • of
  • his
  • mission.
  • At
  • the
  • outset
  • the
  • plan
  • seemed
  • simple
  • enough
  • but
  • not
  • all
  • plans,
  • whether
  • simple
  • or
  • not,
  • turn
  • out
  • as
  • anticipated.
  • Rusty
  • did
  • not
  • realize
  • when
  • he
  • accepted
  • the
  • mission
  • that
  • it
  • could
  • cost
  • him
  • his life.
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