True Spies
Hollywood has a long history of adapting books to the screen. Recently books have started working the angle in reverse, drawing inspiration from well-loved movies. Two years ago author Shana Galen took the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith and turned into a wonderful historical story of two agents married to their careers as spies more than they were ever married to one another. She continues the series and the theme of spy marriages is crisis by taking the action film True Lies and moving it into the post Peninsula War period in True Spies.Lord Winslow Keating has been one of the top agents for the Barbican group, known for his unorthodox methods as much as his success rate. With years of service with the group under his belt, fatigue, age, and a waning confidence in his own abilities has left Winn looking to reconnect with the other side of his life and the family he’s neglected. Little does Winn realize that his family has been getting on quite well without him for all the years of his relative absence in their lives. His daughters are wary of his affection, his staff knows not to plan on his appearance at home, but the worst is the loss of love from his wife Elinor who had finally realized that her husband wasn’t worth her heart.
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