This is the first book in a long while that I've had trouble putting down. It starts as our protagonist Vivian Miller, a CIA analyst on the rise in the agency, discovers that one of the members of a Russian sleeper cell is closer to her than she could have imagined. She is the bread winner for her family and has 4 kids, one of them with special health needs, so her job and income is critical to the family. She is faced with a difficult decision: does she turn the information over to her superiors realizing it will threaten her life and family as she knows it? Or does she make the information disappear, committing treason? With flash backs to fill in details of her family and children the suspense builds as the reader goes back and forth with Vivian as she tries to decide how to protect what matters to her most while also protecting the country she loves. The author does a good job of making the reader feel the dilemma and wondering what they would do if they were in the same position. How far would you go to protect your own family?
Lola Nichols
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