Our American Friend: A Novel Material:Hardcover based on extensive interviews with

based on extensive interviews with those who knew the real story

but I mustn't speak

a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation

They don’t realize that most of the world thinks that they’re extinct

leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos

Our American Friend: A Novel Material:Hardcover based on extensive interviews withA globe spanning thriller of love and betrayal about a mysterious first lady with an explosive secret. Paris, 1974. Lara Orlov and her family arrive from Moscow at the height of the Cold War, thanks to her fathers position as a diplomat. The years pass, and Lara becomes more and more enamored with the City of Lights. As a teenager in Paris, she falls deeply in love with a fellow Russian expat: the passionate, intellectual Sasha, who opens her eyes to