The Patriot's Daughter
A Novel
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
Democracy is fracturing—and one woman may hold the key to saving it.
This electrifying new thriller from former CIA officer and TikTok sensation Brittany Butler is the perfect geopolitical thriller for fans of David McCloskey and Alma Katsu.
When a wave of Russian cyberattacks ignites a disinformation firestorm, the United States is pushed to the brink of a civil war. State governments defy Washington. Militias rise. As trust crumbles and chaos spreads, the CIA races to expose the source behind such unrest before democracy collapses from within.
Brilliant, relentless, and haunted by her mother’s disappearance, Ava was recruited for a moment like this. Dispatched to infiltrate Russia’s foreign intelligence service, her mission becomes personal when she locks onto her target, Konstantine, a charismatic SVR officer whose shadowed past intertwines with her own.
What Ava uncovers is more insidious than she feared. With the country unraveling, she must navigate a minefield of deception. Her only anchor is Ben, a veteran counterintelligence officer with complicated romantic feelings for Ava. But in a world where nothing is as it seems, trusting the wrong person could be fatal.
Ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, The Patriot’s Daughter is a fresh new take on the international spy genre.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
CIA officer Ava Anderson tries to fend off Russian cyberattacks in this so-so spy thriller from Butler (The Syndicate Spy). Ava has been stationed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow with her former trainer, Ben Jennings, for six weeks, trying to recruit someone from the FSB to help her uncover the source of cyberattacks that are destabilizing the U.S. government. She's also there on a personal mission to unravel the secrets of her mother, a CIA officer who was killed by her handler while she was stationed in Russia decades earlier. As she navigates pushback from tech CEO Nathaniel Grey, whose platform is notorious for spreading misinformation, and Russian oligarch Dmitri Abramovich, who's trying to goad the U.S. into nuclear war, she carries a torch for Ben, who's "six-foot-three and built like a Norse God," and targets an older FSB agent for recruitment. Butler's nine-year career as a CIA officer lends the proceedings authenticity, but the plot's espionage elements mix uneasily with its romance tropes, resulting in a lumpy, unfocused narrative that fails to realize its full potential. Readers will be underwhelmed.
