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Articles posted by Alma Katsu
Alma Katsu
Alma Katsu is an award-winning author and former intelligence officer. Red London is the second in her espionage series. The first, Red Widow, was a nominee for the Thriller Writers Award for best novel and a NYT Editors’ Choice.
Sleeping with the Enemy: Alma Katsu's Reading List to Understand the Rise of the Oligarchs
A former CIA analyst tees up why the Russian oligarchy in the UK remains a threat
March 14, 2023
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Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity
When the writing gets personal...
April 27, 2022
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Alma Katsu and Owen Matthews on Ideal Spies, Historical Fiction, and the Russia-West Divide
She was a senior intelligence analyst. He was a Moscow bureau chief. Now they're both writing spy thrillers.
July 20, 2021
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The Best Spy Novels Written by Spies, According to a Spy
Alma Katsu, author and retired intelligence professional, looks at the world of espionage fiction written by spies.
March 23, 2021
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More Than a Hundred Years Later, the Sinking of the Titanic Still Matters
What we can learn from what happened to the "unsinkable ship" on its first voyage
February 24, 2021
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The Irresistible Draw of Writing About the Famous Dead
On Writing a Novel about the Donner Party
March 18, 2019
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