Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home
life--mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights
lawyer--with her work life as an undercover CIA officer.
When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the
field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This
habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the
strife-torn Gaza Strip.
After leaving home posing as a diplomat, Morgan meets her contact, Abdel
Nasser, and the two begin monitoring the warring Fatah and Hamas
factions. On the Strip, the betrayals and contradictions of her personal
and working lives catch up with her. Soon, Morgan and Nasser are
kidnapped by an extremist organization with links to al-Qaeda.
When Adam, Morgan's husband, receives word of her kidnapping, he is
assured by Morgan's bosses at the CIA that the organization is doing
everything they can to find his wife. When days pass with no
developments or new information, Adam decides to look for Morgan on his
own.
Inspired by actual events, Taking Morgan is a gripping novel of
political intrigue and suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story
of a modern couple struggling with their marriage, suddenly at risk of
losing each other forever.
