“There is a casual elegance to Vidich’s spy
fiction, a seeming effortlessness that belies
his superior craftsmanship.”
—New York Times Editor's Choice
"Superb."
—Library Journal
COMING MAY 6, 2025
About Paul
Paul Vidich was a senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. Beirut Station, his sixth novel, will be published in October 2023.
About The Poet's Game
Alex Matthews thought he had left it all behind: his CIA career, the viper's den of bureaucracy at headquarters, the cat-and-mouse game of double agents, and the sudden trips to Russia, which poisoned his marriage and made him an absentee husband and father, with tragic results.
The Poet's Game is a sophisticated portrait of a spy working to uncover layers of deceit behind a Russian plot on the American president.
Praise for Paul's Work
“There is a casual elegance to Vidich’s spy fiction (now numbering five books), a seeming effortlessness that belies his superior craftsmanship. Every plot point, character motivation and turn of phrase veers toward the understated, but they are never underwritten.”
—Sarah Weinman, New York Times Editor's Choice Selection
“Vidich writes with an economy of style that acclaimed espionage novelists might do well to emulate.”
—Booklist (starred)
“A cool, knowing, and quietly devastating thriller that vaults Paul Vidich into the ranks of such thinking-man’s spy novelists as Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst.”
—Stephen Schiff, executive producer of ‘The Americans’
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