{"product_id":"clean-hands-nikki-foss-9798198007413","title":"Clean Hands: A Counterintelligence Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003eVienna. February. A dead intelligence officer nobody was supposed to find. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarcus Webb was twenty-six years old, careful by nature, and good at his job. He varied his routes, ran his own counter-surveillance, and never gave anyone a reason to look twice. Seven months into his posting, he was found dead in a stairwell in the second district - two hours after an emergency extraction protocol was sent to five people who were supposed to protect him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of those five people killed him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCounterintelligence officer Claire Novak has been sent to Vienna to find out which one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe problem isn't the suspects. It's that she knows them. Specifically, she knows the man who built the cell, who recruited her for this investigation, and who has spent fifteen years being the kind of mentor you don't question. Fifteen years of safe houses and memos he wrote on her behalf when she was too junior to write them herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifteen years she has trusted Daniel Marsh completely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen a message arrives from a Washington number she doesn't recognize. Six words. Routed through three relay nodes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe was running you from the start.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClaire knows how investigations work. She knows that suspicion without evidence is just narrative, and narrative is what gets people killed. She knows how to separate what the data shows from what her mind wants to make it show. She has built her entire career on that discipline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe has never had to use it against someone she loved like family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClean Hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a propulsive, psychologically precise spy thriller about the most dangerous kind of betrayal - the kind that wears the face of someone who earned your trust one careful year at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of smart, atmospheric intelligence fiction with moral weight, psychological complexity, and endings that don't let go. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook 1 of the Claire Novak Thriller series. Book 2 coming soon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nikki Foss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198007413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Nikki Foss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173415559423,"sku":"9798198007413","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clean-hands-nikki-foss-9798198007413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}