Timm Rolek

Ferenc Balasz, a young KGB agent tries to keep America from interfering while his superiors in Moscow attempt to control the fall of Communism and avoid a confrontation in Berlin at the Wall like the one that happened in Tiananmen Square. Balasz’s plan to temporarily cripple America’s military hinges on the right person being at the right place at the right time. But in order for it to work he must manipulate someone from his past – an American conductor who showed that music is like a code.

DECEPTIVE CADENCE is structured like a Bach fugue - with musicians and spies, the Kremlin and the White House, and the empty fields of Chernobyl and North Dakota acting in counterpoint.