Description
A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.
Sly and delightful . . . the book is the equivalent of a flinty, modern dame holding her own in a room full of condescending men. --The New York Times Book Review
New York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser''s star is on the rise. She''s filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe''s brand new literary magazine, Downtown (albeit under a male pseudonym), her relationship still makes her weak at the knees, and the science fiction romance she''s writing on the side, The Lunar Housewife, is going swimmingly. But when she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats, Louise can''t help but investigate, and she quickly finds herself wadi
