CHASING THE WINTER"S WIND is the sequel to THE WILLOW'S BEND and the second book of THE CHOPIN TRILOGY. Stanley Wisniewski is on the run in Europe from none other than his old employer - the Central Intelligence Agency. Stanley carries many secrets tha the Deputy Director of Operations, Jack Trellis, desperately wants to never come to the light of day. In order to catch Stanley, Trellis calls on the woman that Stanley himself had trained, Diane Sterling. She is known as "The Huntress" in Agency circles for never having failed to catch anyone she lays her sights upon. The excitement mounts as Stanley evades his former protege as he heads west from Warsaw to Vienna, Milan, and ultimately Paris. But neither Diane nor Stanley are aware that Jack Trellis has inserted a special ops agent within Diane's team to take Stanley out as soon as Diane locates her old mentor.