Across Latitudes: The Complete Trilogy

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By AC Clemons

There's a particular kind of espionage fiction that only a handful of writers can pull off convincingly, the kind where the tradecraft feels real because it is real, where the shadow warfare described on the page isn't invented for dramatic effect but drawn from actual experience in rooms most readers will never see. Brett Andrew Strange is a former US intelligence officer who has lived and worked across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and that biography runs through every page of this trilogy like a current you can feel but can't always see.

What makes Across Latitudes stand apart from the crowded espionage genre is the emotional honesty underneath the action. Strange doesn't let his characters off the hook. The spiritual toll of survival, the grief of those left behind, the gruesome endings of people you've come to care about deeply, these aren't dramatic devices. They're the actual cost of the world he's describing, rendered with the measured authority of someone who has watched it happen.

The trilogy spans the volatile years between 2017 and 2024, which means it moves through some of the most consequential moments in recent geopolitical history. Clandestine chemical weapons deals in the Mediterranean. The mud-soaked trenches of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The confused, imperfect democracies trying to hold the line against an autocratic East. That backdrop gives the personal story of Paul Drake and the enigmatic Katerina Volkova a weight that purely invented thrillers struggle to achieve. You're not just following characters through danger. You're watching the actual forces shaping the world play out through the eyes of people who understand them intimately.

Reading the complete trilogy in one volume is the best way to experience it. The three books build on each other with real intention, and the cumulative effect is something closer to a sweeping epic than a standard thriller series.

For readers who want their espionage fiction grounded in hard truth and real consequence, this is exactly where to look.

About the Author

Brett Andrew Strange

Brett Andrew Strange is a former US intelligence Officer. He is the author of three novels, Against the Dusk, Beneath the Purple Dawn, and Eastern Light, which forms the Across Latitudes espionage series, and also Encounters: Six Short Stories. Strange has traveled to more than two dozen countries as part of the research into the events and characters that appear in his writing. He has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and currently calls San Francisco home.