Mission in Black Author:Gordon Cotler Mission in Black is a beautifully written spy novel in which the action and suspense are shaped as much from what people are, as from what they are doing. Meet Miles, an intelligence evaluator in Washington DC. His wife has died, and trying to put his life together, he has put in for a field assignment "in black." He is handed what seems to be ... more »a routine mission to a Caribbean republic, but he soon finds that he is unable to carry out his simple orders when people and events exert on him extraordinary pressures he cannot understand. Miles is forced to some blinding insights about himself, his adversaries, and the conduct of intelligence operations.« less