I read this book through Kindle Unlimited (I think). It has some editing glitches at points but ignore them - they are so minor, and if you love intelligent spy novels this is one you must read. It's a really compelling story about a spy's search for documents which will reveal some kind of WMD in Iraq, with all the implications that would bring, many years after Desert Storm. And in most espionage novels that's all you would get - an assured, fairly gripping story of the race-against-time nature. But this is so much more than that.Kate Morden is a great character - there's another review on here at the moment that complains that Kate is an angry character. I didn't see her like that. I thought she was very convincing as the kind of person who would be both driven and emotionally detached enough to become a freelance spy - a woman with nothing and no one but her job. A woman who is constantly used, one way or another, by one group or person or another, because that's what people in this world do. And maybe that's what people do full stop. We all use each other to fulfil roles for us. Like the other two characters, Juliette and Sanaa. What a beautiful and unusual depiction of female friendship.
I'm not going to go on and on because I don't want to leave spoilers. But this is the story of three women. It's the story of what love is - real love, the kind of love that is at the very core of what it is to be human. The kind of love that will sacrifice itself to protect another, to keep another's secrets. And it is the story of war made real. Not smart bombs on the TV or some chilling grimnoir depiction, but a tremendous portrayal of people living in fear. Or grieving lives that could have been. And, ultimately, of how we overcome all of that by extending a hand and saying: We come from different worlds but we both bleed, both grieve, both love.
This is one of the best books I've read through the KU programme. It would make a compelling film - The Hours meets Zero Dark Thrity. If you like thrillers, do yourselves a favour and read it. You won't put it down.
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