Paul Vidich

Paul Vidich has had a distinguished career in music and media. Most recently, he served as Special Advisor to AOL and was Executive Vice President at the Warner Music Group, in charge of technology and global strategy. He serves on the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers and The New School for Social Research. A founder and publisher of the Storyville App, Vidich is also an award-winning author of short fiction. His novels, An Honorable Man, The Good Assassin, The Coldest Warrior and The Mercenary, are available from No Exit Press.

Books by Paul Vidich

The Poet’s Game

Paul Vidich

The Poet’s Game is a remarkably sophisticated, timely, and emotionally resonant portrait of a spy from a master of the genre.

Beirut Station

Paul Vidich

A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.

The Matchmaker

Paul Vidich

In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carre, The Matchmaker delivers a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband’s mysterious disappearance….

The Mercenary

Paul Vidich

From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing – and always dangerous – USSR in the mid-1980s.Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the…

The Coldest Warrior

Paul Vidich

The new novel by acclaimed espionage author Paul Vidich explores the dark side of intelligence, when a CIA officer delves into a cold case from the 1950s-with fatal consequences. In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he ‘jumped or fell’ from the ninth floor…

The Good Assassin

Paul Vidich

Former CIA Agent George Mueller is sent to 1958 Havana to look into a CIA officer suspected of sympathising with rebels fighting the Batista regime. Mueller is to vet rumours that CIA weapons are reaching Castro’s forces. Public exposure threatens to embarrass the agency and Mueller must find the truth, uncovering a world of deceit in the process.

An Honorable Man

Paul Vidich

Washington, DC, 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation’s capital, and Joseph Stalin’s death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union. The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets,…