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Title details for The Expats by Chris Pavone - Available

The Expats

A Novel

by Chris Pavone
Mozhan Marnò
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The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is “bristling with suspense” about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue.
 
Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?
 
Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.
      She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn’t speak, doing the housewifely things she’s never before done—playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she’s not allowed to know. He’s becoming distant and evasive; she’s getting lonely and bored.
      Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she’s terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.
      Stylish and sophisticated, fiercely intelligent and expertly crafted, The Expats proves Chris Pavone to be a writer of tremendous talent.

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    March 6, 2012

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307990327
      • File size: 357118 KB
      • Duration: 12:23:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Part parenting journal (Kate, the protagonist, is raising two small boys in Luxembourg), part travelogue (the book visits most of Europe's top cities), and part spy story (lots of acronym-laced agents double-crossing each other), this book may not keep you on the edge of your seat but will probably keep you in it. Its strong suit is the use of marriage as a metaphor for spy intrigue; its weakness is that it jumps around in time, making it a bit tricky for audiobook listeners. And, alas, there are a bunch of loose ends that remain loose after the book is over. It's hard to imagine a better narration than the one provided by Mozhan Marno, who carefully constructs the third-person/first-person voice of the book's heroine. But ultimately, this title is a lot like a new bottle of ketchup. You spend a lot of time trying to get something out of it, and then right at the end, when you're about to give up, too much comes pouring out at once. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 2, 2012
      Fans of John le Carré and Robert Ludlum will welcome former book editor Pavone’s first novel, a meticulously plotted, psychologically complex spy thriller. When Dexter Moore, a financial systems security expert in Washington, D.C., receives a lucrative offer to work for a bank in Luxembourg, his wife, Kate, resigns her position as a CIA operative—a job her husband knows nothing about—and vows to recreate herself as a devoted wife and mother to their two boys. But Kate soon discovers that computer geek Dexter has been living a secret life as well, and that he may be a thief being investigated by the FBI and Interpol who’s stolen millions of euros in online banking transactions. The sheer amount of bombshell plot twists are nothing short of extraordinary, but it’s Pavone’s portrayal of Kate and her quest to find meaning in her charade of an existence that makes this book such a powerful read. Agent: David Gernert, the Gernert Company.

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