Old Dogs New Ticks
Cal MacIntyre has spent four years drowning in grief since losing his wife, Molly, to cancer. Only coaching baseball has kept him going, but an on-field fight with an abusive parent has pushed him into early retirement. Now a judge who’s hated him since high school is circling, and the Florida house he shared with Molly has gone too quiet to bear. So when his best friend, Frank, offers him a way out, Cal leaps across the Atlantic to join him.
Frank Fumagalli spent thirty years as a Defense Intelligence Agency officer, and his own retirement hasn’t slowed him down. It’s only improved his wine selection. Frank’s idea of the quiet life on the French Riviera turns out to involve a pair of downstairs neighbors with alarming résumés and a Russian operation hiding in plain sight along the sun-washed coast of Nice.
When Cal meets Eeva, an Estonian woman with secrets of her own, his reasons to stay in Nice become dangerously personal.
Old Dogs New Ticks is a story about grief, life-long friendship, and the second acts nobody plans for: a thriller with a broken heart at its center. For readers of The Spy Coast and Remarkably Bright Creatures.