The pace picks up and the plot races into white-knuckle territory. Now she is trying to track down a Western spy who is sending intelligence to London and begins to zero in on Digby who, it seems, may be a double agent.ĭuplicity abounds and just what the main characters are really up to is not what it seems. She is a true believer so wedded to the Party that she has informed on her own husband. Meanwhile in Moscow, we run into some unsavory characters including Guy Burgess and, more deadly, a KGB functionary and nasty piece of work called Lyudmila. Ruth arrives accompanied by one Charles Sumner Fox, an attractive, big-shouldered FBI agent posing as her husband.
Though the two have been alienated, Iris wants Ruth to come to her in this, her hour of need. We have learned much of this in retrospect from 1952 when Ruth hears from Iris who, despite previous dangerous pregnancies, is about to give birth again. He has, as we have guessed all along, been passing on intelligence to the Soviets. In 1948, now married and a mother of two with another on the way, she and the children accompany Digby when he defects to the Soviet Union. An affair ensues, war rumbles closer, and Ruth arranges for passages on a ship to take them back to America.īut Iris has fallen pregnant by Digby, who turns out to be a boozer, philanderer and open admirer of the Soviet Union. Ruth continues to model, and Iris haunts the city's museums, where she meets Sasha Digby, a mesmerizing, blue-eyed, golden-haired colleague of Harry's. State Department and is stationed in Rome, where the two young women join him in 1939. Set between 19, it is the story of twin sisters, Ruth, a fashion model, later modeling-agency manager and Iris, an aspiring artist.
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