First published 2013
Tom Harrington arrives in Haiti during the late 1990s to investigate the murder of Jackie Scott, a photojournalist he once knew. The country seethes with guerrilla warfare, kidnappings, and corruption. As Tom digs deeper into Jackie's death, he discovers her connection to Haiti ran far deeper than anyone suspected. His investigation forces him to confront his own tangled history with Jackie and uncover the truth about her enigmatic past. Jackie's story stretches back decades, from her teenage years in 1980s Istanbul to her father's shadowy work as a Cold War operative. Caught between her father's demands that she join the intelligence world and her desire for a different life, seventeen-year-old Jackie devises a plan to escape. But her flight from one life leads her down a path that transforms her into someone Tom barely recognizes. The woman he once cared for has become someone he both fears and wants.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, mystery, crime, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Haiti, Istanbul
Period: 1980s, 1990s
738 pages · Kindle Edition · Atlantic Monthly Press
Content warnings: death, murder, violence