17 Books to Pick Up This Winter
Doubting daughters, enterprising émigrés, lost lovers.
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Need to Know
By Karen Cleveland
304 pages;
Ballantine Books
The author, who drafted this story while on maternity leave from the CIA, centers her pulse-pounding debut novel—think Homeland by way of Gone Girl—on Vivian Miller, who's put it all on the line in her quest to uncover Russian sleeper cells on American soil.
— Claire Luchette
Published 01/14/2018