Alma Katsu is the award-winning author of five novels, most recently Red Widow, The Deep, and The Hunger. Prior to the publication of her first novel, she had a 35-year career as a senior intelligence analyst for several U.S. agencies, including the CIA and NSA, where she was a National Intelligence Officer. Owen Matthews reported … Continue reading Alma Katsu and Owen Matthews on Ideal Spies, Historical Fiction, and the Russia-West Divide