Author: Katherine
Reay
Genre: Historical Fiction, Espionage
Thrillers, Inspirational Fiction
Publisher: Harper Muse (June 13,
2023)
Length: (384) pages
Format: Trade
paperback, eBook, & audiobook
ISBN: 978-1400243037
\ Tour Dates: June 5-19, 2023
BOOK DESCRIPTION
In the
thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two
courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow
recruit.
Vienna,
1954
After
losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer
agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him
home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is
what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the
KGB. Inspired by her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out
in hope to the one country she understands and trusts—Britain, the country of
her mother’s birth. She begins passing intelligence to MI6, navigating a world
of secrets and lies, light and shadow.
Moscow,
1980
A
student in the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at
Georgetown University and boards a flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the
man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated
and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and
paranoid regime at the height of the Cold War. Then the KGB murders her best
friend and Anya chooses her side. Working in a military research lab, she
relays Soviet plans and schematics to the CIA in an effort to end the 1980s
arms race.
The past
catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery threatens all
agents operating within Eastern Europe, and both Ingrid and Anya find
themselves in a race for their lives against time and the KGB.
MY REVIEW
Katherine
Reay has done it again. This is a well-researched and well-written story that
takes us into the cold war, from the beginnings and into the heart of it.
Ingrid
is from Austria, her papers say she is Russian. She witnesses much regarding
her parents and the Nazis during WWII. She ends up becoming a spy as she does
not have many options and eventually marries a Russian man. What she doesn't
tell anyone in her new homeland; her mother was British. Her husband grows
through the ranks and the more this happens, the less she feels his love.
The
other timeline is Anya. Anya is given an opportunity to study in the United
States. This is an honor and she is meant to return to her homeland. She falls
in love, but duty brings her back to the Soviet Union. Before she returns, she
is recruited by the CIA.
These
two women both have much to lose, but find themselves fighting a war that no
one can see. They use the tools they have to work for a better world.
The
story is well written from these two perspectives creating a story of
espionage and intrigue that kept me
turning pages to figure out what would happen next, Their very lives were on
the line. As it builds, there are things the reader learns that makes the story
all the more intriguing and ultimately satisfying. I could not put this one
down. This is a spy novel of the best sort.
The
character growth is beautifully written and the reveals are timed perfectly. I
highly recommend this book full of suspense and humanity.
I
received an early copy through the publisher and NetGalley and this is my
honest review.
PRAISE FOR A SHADOW IN MOSCOW
- “In
her nail-biting latest . . . Reay builds an immersive world behind the
Iron Curtain, full of competing loyalties and a constant, chilling sense
of paranoia. Readers will be enthralled.”— Publishers Weekly
- ”Rich
with fascinating historical detail and unforgettable characters!”— Kristy
Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling author of The Wedding
Veil
·
“…intrigue, twists and turns, acts of bravery
and sacrificial love, and an unforgettable cold war setting with clever daring
women at the helm.”— Susan Meissner, USA Today Bestselling author of The
Nature of Fragile Things
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AUTHOR BIO
Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author who has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books. She publishes both fiction and nonfiction, holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University, and currently lives outside Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and three children.
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