New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and Northern Spy, a Reese’s Book Club pick that was named one of the ten best thrillers of 2021 by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Northern Spy is being adapted for film by Netflix.
Berry's new novel is Trust Her.
At CrimeReads she tagged four
favorite novels about amateur spies. These characters go undercover, without extensive training, an extraction team, expensive equipment, or any idea of what damage might lie ahead.One title on the list:
Ilium by Lea CarpenterRead about another entry on the list.
An aimless young woman marries a charismatic older man, and on their honeymoon on the Dalmatian Coast, her new husband recruits her for an intelligence operation. “What was laid out before me, then, felt less like a risk than like a promotion. I was being invited into something very special, important. He was handing me an identity I had been looking for without even knowing it.” She is to pose as an art advisor, and spy on the owner of a compound in France. The writing is cool, perceptive, and smart, and Ilium reads like a spy thriller by Joan Didion.
Q&A with Lea Carpenter.
--Marshal Zeringue
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