The Lazarus Protocol

By Michael Dowd

A retired MI6 cryptographer is murdered in a locked Highland cottage, leaving only a Cold War cipher no one has used in thirty years. Sidelined field officer Daniel Mercer is pulled back in - because his late father helped build the code's secret. The trail runs through Prague, Vienna, Istanbul and a buried Soviet bunker in Estonia, chasing a mysterious figure called the Curator, who's resurrecting a Cold War contingency that hides sleeper identities inside governments, banks and crime syndicates worldwide. But Mercer soon learns Lazarus was never one protocol - it was two. And the second one might force him to erase the only proof that someone he loves has been living a lie for decades.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HC4TK9XX
• ISBN13: 9798235858879
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Michael Dowd
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"