A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined
fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront
her dead father's secret past--at once a gripping, immersive tale of
duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty.
Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City
banker--and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious
skiing accident in Switzerland the day before his daughter's wedding,
Anna, consumed by grief, grows increasingly distant from her prominent
music-producing husband, who begins running for office. One day, while
on her honeymoon in the south of France, Anna meets an enigmatic
stranger who will cause perhaps even greater upheaval in her life. It
will soon become clear that this meeting was no chance encounter: this
man once worked with Anna's father and has information about parts of
Noel's life that Anna never knew. When she arrives back in New York, she
receives a parcel that contains a series of cryptic recordings and
videos showing Noel at the center of a brutal interrogation. Soon,
everything Anna knows about her father's life--and his death--is called
into question, launching her into a desperate search for the truth.
Smart, fast-moving, and suspenseful, Red, White, Blue plunges us into
the inner workings of the CIA, a China Ops gone wrong, and the
consequences of a collision between one's deepest personal ties and the
most exacting and fateful professional commitment.
