Spy's Mate

Brad Buchanan holds degrees in English Literature from McGill University, the University of Toronto, and Stanford University. He taught British and Postcolonial Literature, as well as Creative Writing, at Sacramento State University (where he also served as English Department Chair) until his retirement in 2016. His poetry, short fiction, and scholarly articles have appeared in more than 200 journals, and he has published 4 book-length collections of poetry. His medical memoir, Living with Graft-Versus-Host-Disease, was published by Armin Lear Press in 2021. Brad Buchanan is a resident of Sacramento, CA.

The life-and-death thrills—and absurdist spills—of world-class chess in the last days of the Soviet Union come roaring to life in Brad Buchanan’s Spy’s Mate , the spellbinding story of a personal quest that will bend your mind and enchant your heart. —Mary Mackey, author of the New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion