Spy thrillers have a well-established literary tradition (John le Carré, Len Deighton and so on) and many people enjoy a good story of secrets and subterfuge.

Rachel Kushner's latest book, Creation Lake, is a new addition to this genre, taking lots of the classic elements of espionage stories and bringing the protagonists and motivations into the present.

We have prepared the first few chapters of the book for you to read (but feel free to read the whole book if you want to) and in November we can discuss whether you enjoy the characters and the writing style, and ask, what happens next?

Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels Creation Lake, The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K, and The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and her nonfiction in Harpers and the New York Times Magazine.

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