TAKING MORGAN

A riveting intelligence thriller by accomplished investigative journalist David Rose, who currently covers intelligence and the Middle East for Vanity Fair.

Like Homeland and Zero Dark Thirty, TAKING MORGAN features a strong - and multidimensional - female lead. Morgan Cooper, like many women, finds it hard to juggle the demands of her children and her career -- a task her workaholic civil-rights lawyer husband Adam makes still more difficult. But unlike the other soccer moms in her affluent DC suburb, she’s an undercover CIA officer, assigned to the strife-torn Gaza Strip. There, as the betrayals and contradictions of her personal and her working life catch up with her, she finds herself in deepest peril.

With her Agency bosses seemingly disengaged, it falls to Adam to try to save her life and their relationship. Inspired by actual events, TAKING MORGAN is a gripping novel of political intrigue and suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story of a modern couple struggling in their marriage, suddenly at risk of losing each other forever. The narrative alternates between Morgan's and Adam's POVs, allowing readers to witness husband and wife’s separate harrowing journeys.

David Rose has written a thriller that is arresting and believable, its grit and brutality and machinations grounded in reality. Through his years of on the ground reporting, Rose has developed a wide network of intelligence community contacts. He had former British, American and Israeli operatives read the novel in progress. Rose has written extensively on intelligence and covert action by agencies all over the world for more than twenty years. He has been a contributing editor with Vanity Fair since 2002. He has been on staff at The Guardian, The Observer and BBC TV, and currently writes investigative articles for the Mail on Sunday as well as VF. He is also the author of six published nonfiction books, most recently Guantanamo: The War on Human Rights (The New Press, 2004), and The Big Eddy Club: Southern Justice and the Stocking Stranglings (The New Press, 2007), a legal drama that was shortlisted for the Crimewriters’ Association Golden Dagger. Rose is also an experienced broadcaster, both in front of and behind the camera. He has made and presented sixteen long-form BBC TV documentaries. He has also appeared numerous times on national television and radio, including CNN (Wolf Blitzer), MSNBC (Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews), and Fox News. He is already planning his next thriller.