Taking Morgan
A Political Thriller
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Publisher Description
“A smartly paced political thriller.” —Observer
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life—mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer—with her work life as an undercover CIA officer.
When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
After leaving home posing as a diplomat, Morgan meets her contact, Abdel Nasser, and the two begin monitoring the warring Fatah and Hamas factions. On the Strip, the betrayals and contradictions of her personal and working lives catch up with her. Soon, Morgan and Nasser are kidnapped by an extremist organization with links to al-Qaeda.
When Adam, Morgan’s husband, receives word of her kidnapping, he is assured by Morgan’s bosses at the CIA that the organization is doing everything they can to find his wife. When days pass with no developments or new information, Adam decides to look for Morgan on his own.
Inspired by actual events, Taking Morgan is a gripping novel of political intrigue and suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story of a modern couple struggling with their marriage, suddenly at risk of losing each other forever.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hefty doses of melodrama undercut British author Rose's fiction debut, a thriller set in 2007 and based on an actual covert operation. Veteran CIA agent Morgan Cooper continues to seek out hazardous fieldwork, even with two small children waiting for her back home. Her husband, Adam, a prominent human rights lawyer, is about to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a Lebanese-American convicted of terrorism for having given almost $100,000 to an Islamic charity that was a front for Hamas. Morgan's first attempt to cross into Gaza fails, but thanks to an Israeli who seemingly met her by chance as she jogged on a Tel Aviv beach, she's able to enter the territory. While the CIA's priority is keeping Gaza out of Hamas's control, Morgan's first act on reaching Gaza City is to jump into the arms of her contact, a tryst interrupted when she's abducted. Adam's efforts to gain her freedom and Morgan's to stay alive aren't enough to sustain interest, and the real-life inspiration for the plot comes across as window dressing.