The McVey Family Spy Trilogy — Shadow of Inheritance, A Hidden War, and Codes and Bullets — traces the covert legacy of an American family whose service to country is hidden behind ordinary lives. What begins in Shadow of Inheritance as a single operative’s duty becomes, by necessity, a generational burden — coded traditions, encrypted communications masked as family rituals, and children raised in a home where truth is negotiable.

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In A Hidden War, the next generation inherits not only the tradecraft but the consequences: enemies shift, allies turn, and the battlefield moves from Cold War statecraft to cyber-espionage, pharmaceuticals, finance, and intelligence theaters without borders. The greatest danger is often not external — it’s what secrecy does to trust, marriage, identity, and conscience.

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By Codes and Bullets, every McVey must decide whether loyalty is owed to blood, to mission, or to self — and whether a family built on deception can survive its own truths. The trilogy fuses the tension of a geopolitical thriller with the psychological depth of an intergenerational drama about the human cost of living a lie for a living.