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Putnam
June 2017
On Sale: May 23, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 0399175024
EAN: 9780399175022
Kindle: B01LMU3KNU
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A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which
one woman must choose between morality and compromise—and in
either case, the consequences may be deadly.
Katarina “Kate” Hollister is a second-generation Foreign
Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She’s not
there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended
high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador
to the country, and he pulled a few strings to get her
assigned to his mission.
U.S.–Kyrgyz relations are
at a critical juncture. U.S. authorities have been
negotiating with the Kyrgyz president on the lease of a
massive airbase that would significantly expand the American
footprint in Central Asia and could tip the scale in “the
Great Game,” the competition among Russia, China, and the
United States for influence in the region. The negotiations
are controversial in the United States because of the Kyrgyz
regime’s abysmal human-rights record. The fate of the
airbase is balanced on a razor’s edge.
Amid these
events, Kate’s uncle assigns her to infiltrate an
underground democracy movement that has been sabotaging
Kyrgyz security services and regime supporters. Washington
has taken an interest in the movement, her uncle conveys,
and may find it worth supporting if they understand more
about the aims and leadership. And Kate has an in—many
followers of the movement were high school classmates of
hers.
But it soon becomes clear that nothing about
Kate’s mission is as it seems . . . and that she might need
to lay her life on the line for what she knows is right.
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