A Good Man on a Dark Night
5 January 2027 · United States
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Berry puts espionage inside the obligations of caregiving. The threat develops through an unequal relationship between an ordinary worker and state power.
About the book
A security officer orders Eleanor, a private nurse, to inform on one of her Washington patients. The target, a foreign service officer named Anna, becomes a friend rather than an abstraction. Eleanor must decide how to respond when the assignment proves more sinister than she understood.