
A Shadow in Moscow
A Cold War Novel
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Narrated by:
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Saskia Maarleveld
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Lisa Flanagan
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By:
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Katherine Reay
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.
“Eloquently portrays the incredible contributions of women in history, the extraordinary depths of love, and, perhaps most important, the true cost of freedom.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil
- An exciting story of two brave female spies in Cold War Moscow
- Also by Katherine Reay: The London House
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Incredible Cold War Story
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Brava! Well done!
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Amazing story.
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I loved the weaving of fiction and truth. I am sure full truth would have been too much truth.
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The narration was brilliant.
Powerful
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It was slow starting
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Great Russian spy story focused on women
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I love history and literature, but the Cold War era is not one I’m naturally drawn to—now I’m intrigued to read more about the events that inspired this book. I’m so glad I started listening to this work as soon as it was released simply because I’ve enjoyed many of Reay’s past books. I believe this is her best work yet. The narrators did a fantastic job, too. I’ll be ordering a printed copy and recommending A Shadow in Moscow to everyone I know. It’s clear 5-star rating for me—which I seldom give. Thank you for the gift of this work, Katherine!
My favorite yet from Katherine Reay
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fast moving. well written
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An awesome Cold War tale
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