What is your favorite
book, movie, or TV show about a spy?
A Shadow in Moscow is an
intriguing and unique cold war historical fiction novel. It is a dual story told in both the 1940s/50s
and 1980s. In Vienna, Ingrid loses her
family and everything she loves during WWII.
After the war, she marries a Soviet Embassy worker and follows him to
Moscow. She finds herself reaching out
to her mother’s home country of England with information about the communist
regime.
Anya is a young Russian
girl going to college in 1980. She grows
to respect the United States as she finishes her degree at Georgetown and also
finds that she has fallen in love with an American, Scott. She has to return to the USSR for her safety
and her family’s safety. After the KGB murders
a good friend, Anya becomes a spy sending top secret information from a military
research center to the CIA in hopes of ending the arms race. Will either Ingrid or Anya be caught?
I have not read too many historical
fiction novels set during the cold war and I really enjoyed this novel. I enjoyed both stories equally, which is
important in a dual narrative novel.
Both Ingrid and Anya are strong female leads with intriguing back stories.
I have enjoyed Katherine Reay’s novels
in the past and this one did not disappoint with great characters and an
riveting plot. The plot and romance were
both slow burn as the novel set up the story, but I was intrigued and couldn’t
stop reading once the story got revved up.
I love a good spy story with all of the feels!
This novel has a great author’s
note and discussion questions at the end.
I feel like I learned a lot about the Cold War in this novel.
Book Source: Review Copy
from HarperMuse. Thank-you! I received
a complimentary copy of this book as part of the Austenprose PR Book Tour.
Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
QUICK FACTS
·
Title: A Shadow in Moscow: A Cold War Novel
·
Author: Katherine
Reay
·
Genre: Historical Fiction, Espionage
Thrillers, Inspirational Fiction
·
Publisher: Harper Muse (June 13,
2023)
·
Length: (384) pages
· Format: Trade
paperback, eBook, & audiobook
· ISBN: 978-1400243037
·
Tour Dates: June 5-19, 2023
BOOK DESCRIPTION
In the
thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two
courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow
recruit.
Vienna,
1954
After
losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer
agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him
home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is
what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the
KGB. Inspired by her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out
in hope to the one country she understands and trusts—Britain, the country of
her mother’s birth. She begins passing intelligence to MI6, navigating a world
of secrets and lies, light and shadow.
Moscow,
1980
A
student in the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at
Georgetown University and boards a flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the
man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated
and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and
paranoid regime at the height of the Cold War. Then the KGB murders her best
friend and Anya chooses her side. Working in a military research lab, she
relays Soviet plans and schematics to the CIA in an effort to end the 1980s
arms race.
The past
catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery threatens all
agents operating within Eastern Europe, and both Ingrid and Anya find
themselves in a race for their lives against time and the KGB.
PRAISE FOR A SHADOW IN MOSCOW
- “In
her nail-biting latest . . . Reay builds an immersive world behind the
Iron Curtain, full of competing loyalties and a constant, chilling sense
of paranoia. Readers will be enthralled.”— Publishers Weekly
- ”Rich
with fascinating historical detail and unforgettable characters!”— Kristy
Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling author of The Wedding
Veil
·
“…intrigue, twists and turns, acts of bravery
and sacrificial love, and an unforgettable cold war setting with clever daring
women at the helm.”— Susan Meissner, USA Today Bestselling author of The
Nature of Fragile Things
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AUTHOR BIO
Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and
award-winning author who has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books. She
publishes both fiction and nonfiction, holds a BA and MS from Northwestern
University, and currently lives outside Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and
three children.
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