Anna is shaken to discover her husband is a spy. Then he kidnaps their baby to war time Iraq. If Anna doesn’t unveil his hidden past, she may lose her daughter forever.
Soon after Anna gives birth to Zina, she knows the child is not her husband’s. And that she wants to spend her life with Zina’s real father, Davoud. Most of all, she wants to be away from the horrible secrets that her husband Karim kept from her, of which a glimpse already shocked her to the core.
His suspicions about her affair bring Karim to kidnap baby Zina, in this espionage romance set mainly in Amsterdam and Iraq. His jealousy and vengefulness in combination with his past as a spy make for such a deadly brew that Anna and her lover are forced into hiding.
When Davoud finally goes to Iraq with Anna to look for their daughter, they find a country in disarray after bombing raids toppled the dictator. With their search for Zina getting ever more desperate, Anna realizes the time has come to disclose Karim’s hidden past.
This book was published before as A Devils Child
Judit Neurink shows in The Jealous Spy not only her knowledge of Iraq and its people, but also her art to write suspenseful romance novels that contain close connections to real-life events.
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