Lea Carpenter. (2018). Red, White, Blue: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Lea Carpenter. 2018. Red, White, Blue: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Lea Carpenter, Red, White, Blue: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018.

Lea Carpenter. Red, White, Blue: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018.

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   • bioText: LEA CARPENTER graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was valedictorian. She is a Contributing Editor at Esquire and has written the screenplay for Mile 22, a film about CIA's Special Activities Division, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg and John Malkovich, coming out in July. She is developing Eleven Days for television with Lucy Donnelly (Grey Gardens) and Gideon Raff (Homeland). She lives in New York.
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A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret past—at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty.
Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City banker—and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious skiing accident in Switzerland the day before his daughter's wedding, Anna, consumed by grief, grows increasingly distant from her prominent music-producing husband, who begins running for office. One day, while on her honeymoon in the south of France, Anna meets an enigmatic stranger who will cause perhaps even greater upheaval in her life. It will soon become clear that this meeting was no chance encounter: this man once worked with Anna's father and has information about parts of Noel's life that Anna never knew. When she arrives back in New York, she receives a parcel that contains a series of cryptic recordings and videos showing Noel at the center of a brutal interrogation. Soon, everything Anna knows about her father's life—and his death—is called into question, launching her into a desperate search for the truth.
Smart, fast-moving, and suspenseful, Red, White, Blue plunges us into the inner workings of the CIA, a China Ops gone wrong, and the consequences of a collision between one's deepest personal ties and the most exacting and fateful professional commitment.

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     Starred review from June 18, 2018
     Carpenter follows her debut, 2013’s Eleven Days, with a beautifully written spy novel told in short segments, many of them narrated by a nameless CIA officer. Successful banker and stockbroker Noel spied for the CIA for 30 years. During this time, his wife, Lulu, abandoned the family, and Noel was left to raise their precocious child, Anna, alone. When Noel dies, Anna tries to piece together her father’s life in the face of accusations that he was really a spy for the Chinese. The nameless CIA agent, who was Noel’s protégé and is now missing, is wanted by the CIA for unofficially exfiltrating a Chinese double agent, who was recruited by Noel. Where most thrillers showcase familiar tips on spy craft and weaponry, Carpenter depicts the more esoteric and often byzantine facets of intelligence work. She skips the easy morality of guns, patriotic loyalty, and heroic action to slowly disclose the complexities of the secret world and how it relates to the human heart. Readers should not expect to come away satisfied with pat solutions, but rather to be seduced and enthralled with the far more challenging questions that arise and are sometimes, as in life, left unanswered. Agent: Eric Simonoff, WME.

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     Starred review from August 1, 2018
     Carpenter's second novel?after her highly praised debut, Eleven Days (2013)?is an appropriately subtle espionage tale, told in spare prose and in short chapters, alternately in the third person, about a young woman named Anna, and in the first person by the CIA case officer who was mentored by Anna's father, Noel. Anna, whose mother left when she was a child, grew up close to the father she believed to be a banker. The day before her wedding to musical wunderkind Jake in Switzerland, Noel goes skiing and dies in an avalanche, so Anna dispenses with party plans and marries in jeans as she grieves. Jake, a natural charmer who wants to change the world, sells the music business he established and pivots to politics, an area in which Anna's father's past becomes problematic. Threaded through the personal account is the business of spycraft: recruiting, nurturing, and?most delicate of all?exfiltrating an asset. This novel is to literature what pointillism is to art, with dots that combine to make a whole picture, one that merges a moving love story with details of a profession that, by its nature, involves both loyalty and duplicity. A stunner.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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     Starred review from June 15, 2018
     The day before Anna's wedding in Switzerland, her powerfully connected, globe-trotting father mysteriously dies on a ski slope. It's only after his death that she learns just how deep the mysteries around him run.During her belated honeymoon in the south of France, she has an encounter in a hotel bar with a CIA case worker who tells her that her father, Noel, was a cohort of his at the agency. She later learns through recordings and a shocking video of Noel being interrogated that he may have spied for the Chinese. Combined with memories of her mother's abandonment of her when she was little, the revelations leave her with "nothing but an outline of the story of her own life." Though she attended Princeton, mastered Chinese and Russian, and worked at the Ford Foundation, Anna has always had a rebellious streak, as reflected in her marriage to a pop-music producer. But in a life further clouded by miscarriages, a failing marriage, and investigations into her own background after "her husband" (as he's always called, with no name) announces his bid for a New York Senate seat, she is left not knowing what to rebel against except fate itself. Carpenter's artfully fragmented novel, which alternates between third-person chapters told from Anna's perspective and the CIA agent's first-person narrative, brilliantly uses the conventions of spy fiction to expose the duplicity and betrayals in people's personal lives. In her chilly, unsparing dissection of the trickle-down effect the muddied morality of bureaucracies has on private lives, Carpenter reveals the influence of Joan Didion, queen of alienation.Employing a failed spy operation as the backdrop for a young woman's search for identity, Carpenter's mesmerizing follow-up to her acclaimed war novel, Eleven Days (2013), is as deeply affecting as it is razor-sharp.

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Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City banker—and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious skiing accident in Switzerland the day before his daughter's wedding, Anna, consumed by grief, grows increasingly distant from her prominent music-producing husband, who begins running for office. One day, while on her honeymoon in the south of France, Anna meets an enigmatic stranger who will cause perhaps even greater upheaval in her life. It will soon become clear that this meeting was no chance encounter: this man once worked with Anna's father and has information about parts of Noel's life that Anna never knew. When she arrives back in New York, she...

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