Taking Morgan

A Political Thriller

By: David Rose

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life - mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer - with her work life as an undercover CIA officer.

When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.

After leaving home posing as a diplomat, Morgan meets her contact, Abdel Nasser, and the two begin monitoring the warring Fatah and Hamas factions. On the Strip, the betrayals and contradictions of her personal and working lives catch up with her. Soon, Morgan and Nasser are kidnapped by an extremist organization with links to al-Qaeda.

When Adam, Morgan's husband, receives word of her kidnapping, he is assured by Morgan's bosses at the CIA that the organization is doing everything they can to find his wife. When days pass with no developments or new information, Adam decides to look for Morgan on his own.

Inspired by actual events, Taking Morgan is a gripping novel of political intrigue and suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story of a modern couple struggling with their marriage, suddenly at risk of losing each other forever.

©2014 David Rose; First published in 2014 by Quartet Books Limited.; First Skyhorse Publishing edition, 2015. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"A smartly paced political thriller." (Observer)

Excellent

This was an excellent book. Still hard to believe it was included and did not require a credit. Definitely worth a credit if they ever require one.

The ending has no closure

Good until the last two chapters. The ending is awful, nothing gets wrapped up. It was just all the sudden over

Good story

well written and I liked the characters. timely in this day and age, a very volatile setting

Riveting and unexpected

I’m so glad I read this book. It was fascinating to get a description of Gaza prior to ever the recent war between Israel and Hamas. The story was so suspenseful it was really tough to put down. the main characters felt realistic and human. I could almost empathize with everything they were facing.

unrealistic

An amateurish written romance, that thinks its a political thriller. Unrealistic CIA interactions. Entertaining, but not engaging