Karen Cleveland
Author of Need to Know
About the Author
Karen Cleveland is an American author and former CIA analyst. She is a Fulbright Scholar with a master's degree from Trinity College Dublin and Harvard University. As a CIA analyst for eight years, she focused on counterterrorism and worked briefly with the FBI. Her debut novel is Need to Know. show more (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Karen Cleveland
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- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- North Virginia, USA
- Education
- Trinity College, Dublin
Harvard University - Occupations
- CIA analyst
- Organizations
- CIA
- Agent
- David Gernert, The Gernert Company
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- Works
- 6
- Members
- 1,209
- Popularity
- #21,245
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 115
- ISBNs
- 98
- Languages
- 12
- Favorited
- 2
Beth is a CIA agent who lived on a quiet cul-de-sac with her husband. They have 3 kids and have just dropped the youngest off at college and are getting ready to move to another home. She and Mike are friends with everyone on their cul-de-sac and they all have jobs with the CIA in some capacity or another.
The day she drops her son off at college, she goes into work to find out she's been pulled from a case she's been working on for years; she's looking for The Neighbor, an Iranian Quds Force commander. When she returns home that night, Mike tells her he wants a divorce. Her life is now officially in turmoil.
She decides to look into recent transmissions received by The Neighbor and discovers there is now a New Neighbor. She begs to suspect everyone but everyone also think she's going crazy.
It was a bit of a slow burn with this book and then it picked up. I enjoyed the book overall but felt the ending was a bit rushed and not very plausible. However, I will read her other books.… (more)