![]() Meticulously researched, it is also wonderfully paced storytelling. Sepetys’s novel is historical fiction at its best. diplomats-he is also given a chance to prove himself resourceful, flawed, and heroic. diplomat’s son-his mother cleans the apartments of two U.S. But when he gets recruited to spy on a U.S. The high school student is an adventuresome young man who dabbles in such illegal activities as watching smuggled American movies, writing in his journals, hoarding Kent cigarettes, and sharing a can of Coca-Cola. ![]() But no character is as thoroughly engrossing as Cristian Florescu. ![]() The novel is filled with unforgettable characters who convey varying aspects of the suffering and abuse of civil liberties by the communist government led by Nicolae Ceausescu. Ruta Sepetys’s new historical thriller I Must Betray You is an atmospheric, beautifully written story set as the 1989 Romanian Revolution fast approaches. ![]()
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