![]() ![]() A marvelous new addition to Katsu's already impressive. As with her exceptional novel, The Hunger, in The Deep Katsu takes on an infamous tragedy and adds her own haunting twists. Think Diana Gabaldon by way of Charlaine Harris. Still, a spy novel that focuses on relationships (including Lyndsey’s), women, and family is a refreshing change from the usual genre fare. 'Alma Katsu is a fantastic writer, with a unique ability to blur the lines of history, horror, humanity, and tragedy. On the other hand, Emily is little more than a pitiable figure, and there’s way too much backstory. As a former CIA agent, Katsu knows her tradecraft, and she does a good job ratcheting up the suspense as Mikhail gets increasingly more fearful and paranoid-and more cruel to Emily, who fears he’ll disappear with their two young children. Lyndsey’s mission is to befriend Mikhail’s unhappy English trophy wife, Emily, and see whether she’s open to turning on her husband. the CIA wants to know about his relationship with Kosygin. Set in a near future in which Viktor Kosygin has replaced Vladimir Putin as Russia’s president after “the Ukraine fiasco,” Katsu’s entertaining if flawed sequel to 2021’s Red Widow takes CIA agent Lyndsey Duncan to London, to work with Dmitri Tarasenko, a Russian “war criminal and double agent,” but she’s soon taken off the Tarasenko case to go undercover to investigate Russian oligarch Mikhail Rotenberg. ![]()
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