H. K. Roy | Author of American Spy & Anja’s Tears - Former CIA Operations Officer & Bestselling Author of American Spy and Anja’s Tears

One Author. Two Sides of the Secret World.

File 001 // nonfiction

American Spy

Wry Reflections on My Life in the CIA

A candid, darkly witty memoir from a CIA operations officer. Real Stories. Real People. Real moments that reveal the true world of intelligence.

File 002 // Espionage Fiction

Anja's Tears

A Thriller of Love and Espionage

A novel inspired by true events. In war-torn Sarajevo, a CIA operative and a fearless woman become partners in a dangerous game of intelligence, betrayal, and love.

Author Profile // HKR

He Lived The Stories Most Spy Writers Have To Imagine.

H. K. Roy served thirteen years as a staff CIA operations officer, with assignments involving Latin America and the former Yugoslavia. After leaving the CIA, he continued working internationally in areas connected to national security. He holds a law degree from George Washington University and speaks multiple languages.

13 Years

CIA Operations Officer

Latin America

Former Yugoslavia

GW Law

Multilingual

Baja // California

Field Reports // Reviews

What Readers & Reviews Are Saying

“Anja’s Tears captures what most books miss—the human side of intelligence work in a war zone.”

“Roy is the real thing.”

Described the book as “politically neutral, educational, and sometimes insightful.”

“A powerful love story that brings warmth and humanity to a spy story—and revives a painful chapter of history.”

Described the book as “a rollicking spy's eye view.”

Called American Spy “fascinating and thought-provoking.”

“A unique view into the normally hidden world of covert operations that could only be told as fiction.”

“A fast-paced, atmospheric spy novel set in Sarajevo during the final year of the Bosnian War.”

Called it an “action-packed tour de force.”

“A tale of heartbreak and redemption—and, above all, a fine specimen of espionage literature.”

sarajevo // 1990s

Some Stories Don't End When the Operation Does

The experience that opened American Spy would eventually inspire Anja’s Tears more than two decades later.