The Disposable Man, Paperback/Archer Mayor

When a local quarry yields up a garroted body with bad dental work and toes tattooed in Cyrillic, Joe Gunther figures it for a Russian mafia killing, rare as that might be in Vermont. But it's so very tidy. So very professional. Then the CIA calls, inviting Gunther down to Washington for some friendly assistance with his case. Suddenly he s caught up a shadowy game of cross and double-cross manipulated by cynical cold warriors who seem not to have gotten the memo and Gunther soon realizes that he's a pawn that both sides are willing to sacrifice.