Markstein delivers a tough, tightly wound espionage thriller set inside a secret facility where problematic agents and political embarrassments are “cooled” off—hidden, contained, or quietly erased. When one inmate engineers a daring escape, the walls of this shadow-world start cracking, exposing bureaucratic rot, government paranoia, and the human cost of a system built on silence. Stark, tense, and steeped in Cold War cynicism, The Cooler reads like a prison break wrapped inside a thrilling spy scandal—lean, gripping, and cold to the bone.
Some foxing to interior.
