A Woman of Intelligence

Karin Tanabe

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781761101984
• eBook ISBN:
  9781761101991
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A glamorous Fifth Avenue wife hiding behind the perfect 1950s life is recruited by the FBI to spy on a dangerous Soviet operative from her past. As Cold War secrets and betrayals close in around her, Katharina must risk everything to reclaim the woman she used to be.

New York, 1954. From the outside, Katharina Edgeworth appears to have everything a woman could dream of: a glamorous Fifth Avenue apartment, elegant parties at the Plaza, two beautiful sons, and a brilliant husband from one of America’s wealthiest families. But beneath the polished façade, Katharina feels trapped in a life she never truly chose.

Before marriage and motherhood, Katharina was fiercely independent — a gifted translator working at the newly formed United Nations in the exhilarating years after World War II, believing she could help shape a better world. Manhattan was alive with possibility, and so was she.

Now, suffocated by the expectations of high society and desperate to reclaim her sense of purpose, Katharina is stunned when the FBI approaches her with a dangerous proposition. A charismatic man from her past has become a powerful Soviet spy, and the Bureau believes Katharina may be the only person capable of infiltrating his inner circle.

Drawn into the shadowy world of Cold War espionage, Katharina finds herself leading a thrilling double life, balancing cocktail parties and charity galas with coded messages, surveillance, and deadly secrets. As she becomes increasingly entangled with both the FBI and the KGB, the stakes rise dangerously higher — and the people around her begin to disappear.

But the deeper Katharina goes undercover, the more she risks losing everything: her marriage, her family, and even her own identity.

Elegant, suspenseful, and emotionally charged, this captivating historical novel is the story of one woman’s fight to break free from the roles imposed upon her and discover who she truly wants to be in a world divided by fear, power, and betrayal.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35
• Chapter 36
• Chapter 37
• Chapter 38
• Chapter 39
• Chapter 40
• Chapter 41
• Chapter 42
• Chapter 43
• Chapter 44
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright