RED LONDON

The bonds of female friendship just might prevent the most calculated invasion of our time, in this powerful and timely follow-up to Red Widow.

After an explosive takedown of a well-placed mole within the CIA, agent Lyndsey Duncan has been tasked with keeping tabs on her newest Russian asset, Tarasenko. She arrives in London fully focused on the assignment at hand... until her MI6 counterpart, Davis, who got her unceremoniously sent home from their overseas mission after a whirlwind affair, personally calls for her.

After a suspicious attack on a powerful Russian oligarch's property along Billionaires' Row, Davis needs Lyndsey to cozy up to targeted Mikhail Rotenberg's seemingly guileless wife Emily. Lyndsey's job is to obtain any and all information related to Mikhail's relationship with the new Russian leader who has been eerily quiet. Fortunately for Lyndsey, there's little dissuading Emily from taking in a much-needed confidante. After all, misery needs company.

But before Lyndsey can cover much ground with her newfound friend, the CIA unveils a perturbing connection between Mikhail and Russia's geopolitical past: one that could dangerously upend world powers as we know it. As the pressure to turn Emily becomes higher than ever, Lyndsey must choose between her duty to found family, and the very dire fate of the world. And for Lyndsey, never have two consequential sufferings ever felt so equal in measure.

Alma Katsu is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Red Widow, The Fervor, The Deep, and The Hunger. Prior to the publication of her first novel, she had a 30+ year career as a senior intelligence analyst for several U.S. agencies, including the CIA and NSA, as well as RAND, the global policy think tank. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, where she is a consultant to government and private industry on future trends and analytic methods.