Northern Spy

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What Patrick Radden Keefe Says: "A tense and atmospheric novel about spy games between the IRA and British intelligence – even after the Good Friday Agreement ostensibly brought peace to the island – featuring a pair of sisters, one of them named Marian!"

What They Say: “A sharp, moving thriller, combining motherhood and espionage, sisterhood and sacrifice. You lose your breath for adrenalin, but also in empathy: for Tessa and Finn, in those quiet nighttime moments between mother and son. As tender as it is tense” — Abigail Dean 

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Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of Dua’s Monthly Read for June 2024, Say Nothing