Red Cherry - by Maggie Thrash (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From the beloved author of Rainbow Black comes a sensational spy drama and epic love story set during the coldest stretch of the Cold War.

It's 1974 and Washington, DC, is a dirty, dissolute place. Vicky is a teenager searching for meaning in a city that has lost its soul in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Two girls enter Vicky's life seemingly by coincidence: A wealthy Tahitian "embassy brat" named Tita who has just arrived from Paris, and an enigmatic German waitress whose very name is a mystery.

Vicky and Tita soon become convinced the waitress is a Soviet spy. It's a folie à deux, an obsessive game played by a pair of girls who don't know what they're doing. At home, Vicky's father, a man doing mysterious work for the Navy, has a sudden obsession of his own. He is consumed by home security, and has outfitted the entire house with 24-hour surveillance. He trusts no one, not even his own family members. Is he right to suspect their loyalty?

As Vicky's game escalates and the stakes become very real, she is pulled into an earth-shattering love affair that crosses all boundaries.

The paranoia of John le Carré blends with the delirium of V. C. Andrews in this sexy, drama-drenched, psychologically tense spy story.

Review Quotes

"Maggie Thrash has done it again: Red Cherry is a hot, dizzying whirlwind, a teenage fantasy that spirals into paranoiac fervor. The world of Red Cherry is thick with atmosphere, where spies are lovers and lovers are spies, and nothing is as it seems. I tore through it." - Avery Curran, author of Spoiled Milk