Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Honeytrap | 2025 | Saul Herzog | Buy |
| 2 | The Dissonant | 2025 | Saul Herzog | Buy |
| 3 | The Swallow | 2026 | Saul Herzog | Buy |
The Espionage Thriller series opens with The Honeytrap (2025) and introduces three protagonists: Irina, trained as a seducer and manipulator by a Soviet-era intelligence programme; Margot, a Western operative whose career has taken her to the edges of what she is willing to do; and Oksana, an orphan of the Cold War whose loyalties are genuinely uncertain. Their separate operations run on parallel tracks before converging on a shared threat.
Herzog has described the series as a departure from the Lance Spector template — less concerned with who wins and more concerned with what the work costs the people doing it. The Dissonant and The Swallow (both 2025) continue the story as the three women’s missions draw closer together. A fourth entry, The Hypersonic, is planned for 2027.
The series is published independently, as with the Lance Spector books, and continues Herzog’s practice of research-heavy plotting in a contemporary geopolitical setting.