“This is Williams at the top of her game.' - Historical Novel Society

'A captivating Cold War page-turner.' - Real Simple 'Fans will be riveted by the complex family relationships and the intriguing portrayal of espionage.' - Publishers Weekly 'Superb.Williams has created her own vivid plot wound around a true story.” - Seattle Times She expertly shifts between family drama and a suspenseful espionage plot, and makes every word and note count.' - Library Journal (starred review) 'Williams has a sure hand in this deceptively quiet novel, told from the perspective of three different women. “A thrilling novel of spying, duplicity and bad decisions during the heart of the Cold War…the plot races into white-knuckle territory.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.” - Elin Hilderbrand “I think Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain.īut the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?įour years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. 'A captivating Cold War page-turner.' - Real Simple

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