EXCLUSIVE: The Gifford Media Group has acquired movie and TV rights to Harvard-trained doctor turned novelist William Maz’s Chilly Warfare thriller The Bucharest File (2022) from Oceanview Publishing.  

The novel follows CIA analyst and Romanian expat Invoice Hefflin who returns to his homeland after the grotesque homicide of his former Harvard professor. He quickly turns into embroiled in a high-stakes sport of espionage together with his mysterious KGB asset.

Oceanview has already ordered a sequel to Maz’s debut novel.

The Gifford Media Group was based by author and producer Cody Gifford, son of TV stalwarts Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford, the previous being the late Corridor of Fame NFL player-turned-broadcaster and the latter the Emmy-winning co-host of In the present day.

Cody Gifford’s WWII courtroom drama American Patriot was featured and subsequently optioned by the Black Checklist. He’s at present executive-producing The Glory Sport — his father’s memoir concerning the genesis of the fashionable NFL — with Basil Iwanyk’s Game1 Studios. He most not too long ago executive-produced director Rebecca Carpenter’s documentary about soccer and CTE, Requiem for a Working Again.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Maz emigrated to the U.S. as a toddler, graduated from Harvard College and Mount Sinai Faculty of Medication and pursued his residency in anesthesiology at Yale. A working towards doctor, he developed a ardour for writing fiction and studied writing at Harvard, the New Faculty, and The Author’s Studio in New York Metropolis, and is now writing full time.

Gifford is represented by Greenberg Traurig’s Dan Black and APA’s David Saunders. Maz is represented by Gina Panettieri and Talcott Notch Literary Providers.