"A captivating Cold War page-turner." -- Real Simple
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.
In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her
American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked
by the family's sensational disappearance. 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?
Four 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. 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.
But 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.
