Our American Friend is a novel based in near-reality, but what actually inspired author Anna Pitoniak into writing the story? Watch to learn more about this fascinating historical spy drama that bestselling author Lee Child calls “spectacular,” and find out the real-life scenarios which sparked a writer's imagination.

For fans of The Secrets We Kept and American Wife, Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War-era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner—and a devastating love story—about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect.