The unwitting
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ellen Feldman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780812993448; 9780679645511
Subjects: Married people; Fiction; Intelligence service; Cold War; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States
Description: "During the Cold War, many liberal anti-communist writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals ended up working for organizations that were CIA fronts. CIA protocol dictated that one individual in the various organizations would be investigated, sworn to secrecy, and told about the CIA connection and funding. That individual was, in Agency parlance, witting. Everyone else was unwitting. The Unwitting is about a husband who is witting, a wife who is unwitting, and the unraveling of her life when she discovers that the person she is closest to in the world, the husband she loved and trusted, has betrayed her not with another woman but with an allegiance"--