A Most Clever Girl by Stephanie Marie Thornton

Who was the person who ran the largest Soviet spy ring in the United States during the Cold War? A woman by the name of Elizabeth Bentley. Her confession to the FBI not only identified 41 Soviet sources operating throughout the U.S., it essentially took down the golden age of Soviet espionage, which had been ongoing for over 20 years.

During our interview, author Thornton shares with me the many challenges of writing about such a successful spy: the ultimate unreliable narrator and an “incredibly complex woman.”

Read my interview with A Most Clever Girl author, Stephanie Marie Thornton