Due January 2012. The Third Woman is a literary novel of suspense and dwartime romance. The Third Woman draws its atmospheric, suspenseful background inspiration from Orson Welles' classic movie The Third Man, set in chaotic and gloomy Vienna after World War II. It draws its sweeping love story from the novel Doctor Zhivago. The love story, which is as central as the spy story, is a natural blend of tragedy and triumph amid wartime romance, when all things are possible. While Boris Pasternak's masterpiece is an epic of early 20th Century, The Third Woman spans a half century from the outbreak of World War II in 1940 to the chaos at war's end in 1945 San Francisco.

The story is framed by a glamorous French countess' global search for her long-lost father, a World War II U.S. Naval Intelligence officer, during the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the revelation of remarkable old mysteries. Most of the story is told from the viewpoint of her father, Lt. USN Tim Nordhall, during the war years.

Tim Nordhall's harrowing adventures take him from Africa, source of radium for atomic bombs, to wartime London and finally the City of Love, San Francisco. He is involved in a murderous atomic espionage game played for the highest stakes by the three leading power centers—Allies, Axis, and Soviet Union.

In London, Tim discovers the great love of his life, a stunningly beautiful Free Polish Army nurse named Anna Stokowska. Anna is a woman of many secrets and mysteries, just as Tim's nemesis, Jaguar, is a triple agent playing all three major powers against each other. Outfoxed and betrayed, Tim transfers to a more routine engineering intelligence assignment in San Francisco to wait out the war. But the dance only begins…

San Francisco is just as often a foggy and mysterious vortex—with bullet flying, eyes peering from rainy doorways, and car chases down uncharted streets. It is full of young military men and women at the chaotic climax of their energies—dancing, boozing, rioting, fighting. Wartime San Francisco is a labyrinth of intrigues, of love and betrayal, as the atomic bombs bound for Hiroshima and Nagasaki move through the night. Stalin's agents spare nothing to steal Hitler's captured atomic bomb materials from the sub U-234, while they infiltrate the highest levels of the new United Nations.

In San Francisco, Tim Nordhall becomes caught up in a remarkable war-time love triangle with two captivating female spies—the derring-do WAFS pilot Corie Johnston, and a Middle Eastern enigma named Naomi Meged. As the Third Woman shows up, changing everything, Tim and his two women prevent Stalin's theft of Hitler's atomic bomb materials, save the world, and go on the run for decades from Stalin's personal rage for revenge—setting the stage as well for the daughter Tim never knew he had, and her decades long search for him, which takes readers toward the dawn of the 21st Century.