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Please join us in the Scott Room for a fun filled hour of conversation with William Maz, author of the spy thriller, The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs. This page turner finds CIA analyst, Bill Hefflin, in a tight spot as he tries to clear his name after being linked to a KGB mole inside the agency. The mole's handler is a KGB agent known as Boris, the code name of Hefflin's longtime KGB asset. Hefflin must return to Bucharest, city of his birth, to find Boris and track down the identity of the mole. It has been three years since the bloody Romanian revolution, and what Hefflin finds is a cauldron of spies, crooked politicians, and a country controlled by the underground and the new oligarchs - all of whom want to find Boris.
WILLIAM MAZ was born in Bucharest, Romania and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and did a residency in anesthesiology Yale. While practicing medicine he developed a passion for writing fiction. He studied writing at Harvard, the New School and The Writer’s Studio in New York City and is now devoted to writing full time. Maz divides his time between homes in Pennsylvania and New York City. The Bucharest Legacy is his latest novel and the sequel to The Bucharest Dossier.