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A marriage built on secrecy unravels when a British MI6 agent and “mole-hunter” disappears, leaving his estranged wife to wonder if he has vanished behind the Iron Curtain in pursuit of a traitor, or if he is the wanted man himself.
London, 1979. Even as Alice puts her key in the lock of her front door, she is certain she is being watched—but whether by British intelligence, foreign agents, or someone closer to home she cannot say. Her husband, an MI6 agent, has been missing for weeks, but has her infidelity driven him away—or something more sinister? Long tasked with investigating the Cambridge Five spy ring and rooting out its upper-crust members such as the infamous “Third Man,” Kim Philby, Alice is soon forced to wonder if her husband is still hunting these elusive Cold War master spies, or if he is, himself, being hunted. And for what, exactly?
Over the course of forty-eight hours, Alice desperately calls on old friends and enemies alike in search of some clue as to her husband’s fate. Forced to reexamine every interaction, assignation, professional advancement, or tawdry scrap of gossip of the past twenty years, Alice feels herself drawn deeper into a perilous world of surveillance, deceit, and clandestine dealmaking, where everyone—even she—has a great deal to hide.
A sophisticated and deeply atmospheric game of cat-and-mouse told by a master storyteller, A Classified Affair explores the emotional stakes of a marriage built on lies, the social and sexual politics of an empire on the wane, and the inner life of a willful, wily operator too often relegated to the sidelines of a man’s game.
