Glamorous Notions

by Megan Chance

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What was the usual course of action when one discovered a friend was possibly a Russian spy, especially when you’d been involved with her in running—what? Secrets?

And now here were Runyon and the CIA saying it was their job to point her beliefs in the right direction, and the rest of the world’s, too, and asking her to help them do it.

I suspected what she was, but the truth is that I didn’t want to know. I didn’t want to see, not until I had no choice.”

“That he’d seen enough suffering during the war, and he’d chosen a side, and that side was America. He

said that when your adversary has no scruples, you shouldn’t have them, either, and if that meant he needed a dead conscience, then he was fine with that, and one day I’d be grateful he’d made that decision.”

The story of the US government using popular culture during the Cold War to influence both Soviet and American thought was the inspiration for this book.

Carleton Alsop, who worked for the CIA’s Psychological Warfare Workshop, and reported to the Psychological Strategy Board. My character Michael Runyon is based on Alsop.