60-year-old Maggie Bird is quietly raising chickens in the seaside village of Purity, Maine. So too are several of her fellow retired CIA officers, who also like the area’s charm–but especially like to keep watch on one another. When a dead body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes, and she turns to her friends, and not Purity’s baffled, acting Police Chief Jo Thibodeau, for help.
As she tries to figure out what led to this, in alternating chapters, Maggie’s reminisces about working her most past dangerous mission, Operation Cyrano, which took her around the world and eventually, she believes forced her to become a traitor. But as ghosts from Maggie’s past continue to seek revenge, she’ll need to call on the favors of some old friends – and perhaps even the local police after all – in order to outmaneuver them.
With plenty of action and espionage, and engaging characters readers will want to get to know more, The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen is the perfect book for readers who enjoy spy novels, murder mysteries, and thrillers. This first novel in a planned series will also please fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series and the “Red” film series. Place your hold today.
-Carol
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