The Spies from Princeton: A Tale of Fellowship, Treachery, and Retribution.

The Spies from Princeton: A Tale of Fellowship, Treachery, and Retribution

By Guy K. Stewart, Jr.

The Spies from Princeton is not your run-of-the-mill, spy shoot-'em-up.

Like John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Guy Stewart's novel is a short, taut, focused tale--where amoral treachery and the equally amoral stunning triple-cross are the themes.

The novel, part of a series written by Stewart, a West Palm Beach attorney, begins with a flashback, when readers first meet six young Princeton classmates. Their professor, Stanley Bundy, is a campus recruiter for the CIA, and these young men ("Bundy's Brats") all join the agency. One of the brats, Rollins Tyler Chatham Rathbone, stays on, eventually becoming deputy director.

Flash forward to today. The Middle East is exploding in reaction to despotism, and Iran is on the verge of dropping "the bomb" on an Israel not in good graces with the current White House. Rathbone's own nephew is his aide. Vince Torrelli is a former, highly decorated Marine, once attached to a SEAL Unit in Pakistan. Torrelli, a Yalie, is now facing politically motivated charges over waterboarding incidents, and Uncle Tyler calls upon Stewart's hero to...