![]() and N.S.A., writes what she’s most professionally familiar with after years in the paranormal and horror novel trenches. ![]() Katsu, a longtime intelligence analyst for the C.I.A. Figuring out who’s doing the most double-dealing, and how many layers of deception are involved, makes for delicious suspense. And a fledgling friendship with the titular widow, Theresa Warner, seems predicated on falsehood and betrayal. His family needs safe harbor, but she’s getting resistance from the higher-ups. A Russian asset she’s spent months developing has been fatally poisoned. Lyndsey, in particular, has excellent reason to be wary of everybody. ![]() ![]() But their continued use by intelligence divisions is a metaphor for the lack of trust inherent in this work, a metaphor Alma Katsu employs in sly fashion. agent Lyndsey Duncan, is known by colleagues as the “human lie detector.” Polygraphs are so inaccurate that many courts won’t admit them as evidence. There’s some heavy irony at work in RED WIDOW (Putnam, 352 pp., $27) as one of its leads, the C.I.A. ![]()
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