The Prisonerβs Wife is a political thriller ripped from todayβs headlines β a tense trip through the murky worlds of state-sponsored terrorism, nuclear politics, secret American jails and lawless rendition. Shawn Maguire, unemployed American spy, has been paid to find a young Iranian now being interrogated in one of the CIAβs black prisons. The prisoner may be in Fes, in Cairo or in Peshawar, but Shawn has every confidence that heβll find his man. Based on his time as an agent, itβs an assignment he knows he can handle. But heβs not so sure he can handleβ¦ the prisonerβs wife.