The Lyon Convergence: Every Truth Has a Shadow

By Todd Cotton

A Shadow Protocol Prequel
December 1944. Occupied Lyon. The war is ending, but the real battle has just begun.
OSS operative Michael Garvey parachutes into France to extract a Nazi intelligence officer defecting with proof of the Shadow Network, a conspiracy to preserve German assets for the postwar world.
But in Lyon, nothing is simple. Communist resistance fighters want the defector dead. British SOE wants him silenced. And the documents he carries expose not just Nazi schemes, but Allied entities already planning for the next war.
As resistance factions fight each other more than Germans, as the Gestapo closes in, as Allied bombers turn liberation into destruction, Garvey discovers a truth more dangerous than any enemy: his own side may be irredeemably compromised.
In the shadow world of intelligence, victory and defeat become meaningless. There are only survivors and casualties, and the price of survival is accepting that everyone is betraying everyone.
Based on newly declassified documents about resistance factions, Operation Paperclip, and the compromise of Allied intelligence, THE LYON CONVERGENCE reveals the birth of the Cold War in the dying days of World War II.
"In December 1944, Michael Garvey learned that winning the war and winning the peace required two different kinds of moral surrender. This is the story of his education in the shadows."
A standalone prequel to THE FIFTH PROTOCOL that exposes the moment when the "Good War" revealed its darker truths.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQC9JXHH
• ISBN13: 9798264429897
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"