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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  By Alma Katsu
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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  By Alma Katsu
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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  By Alma Katsu
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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  By Alma Katsu
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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  By Alma Katsu
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The Irresistible Draw of Writing About the Famous Dead

On Writing a Novel about the Donner Party

March 18, 2019  By Alma Katsu
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