The Long Homecoming

The war is over. The nightmares aren't. And the men who know what Captain Edward Hume is capable of are already pulling him back in.

Hume came home from Europe to a wife, a growing family, and the normal civilian life he spent years earning. He teaches the next generation of bomb disposal techs. He defuzes the occasional tricky device when the Reserves call. He should be done.

Then a summons arrives from Paris. Boniface McEwan—a shadow from Hume's war years, now rising fast inside the new Central Intelligence Agency—has an armed Russian device he intends to use for a sabotage operation, and he needs Hume to tell him whether it will do the job. What Hume walks into is not a consultation. It is a recruitment into classified covert operations—and rogue stealth missions no agency officially acknowledges—already underway before he ever boards the plane for a divided postwar Europe and, inevitably, the endless Cold War conflict in Korea.

Hume begins to question who he is really working for, whether the men beside him are allies or handlers, and whether the skills that cleared Patton's path from Normandy to Germany can carry him through a war fought in the dark — against a compromised Soviet weapon whose detonation could erase a city and poison a continent.

From Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith comes a gripping novel of duty, doubt, and the uneasy dawn of the Cold War. The Long Homecoming is a testament to the soldiers who won one war—and were asked to fight another in the shadows.