THE HANDLER

A DISGRACED FORMER CIA OPERATIVE MUST GO BACK IN THE FIELD WITH ONLY HIS EX-WIFE AS HIS HANDLER IN THIS ELECTRIFYING THRILLER FROM A FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.

Meredith Morris-Dale is a CIA case officer and a damn good one...even if this last mission did go terribly wrong. Now she’s been summoned back to Langley where she expects to be fired. Instead, she’s met by the head of Clandestine Services with stunning news.

A single well-placed CIA mole in Iran’s uranium enrichment program has kept the regime from building a bomb by sabotaging their covert centrifuge arrays. But after losing his daughter in an airliner shootdown, the mole wants out—leaving the world on the brink. His one demand: a reunion with the only handler he ever trusted, John Dale—Meredith's disgraced, fired, wayward ex-husband. As Meredith and John struggle through their fraught relationship, a craven CIA political hierarchy, Russian interference, and the rogue spy’s manipulation, they must reach deep within their shared connection to maintain, recover, or kill the asset.

  • "A SPECTACULAR TALE, BRIMMING WITH INTRIGUE, SUSPENSE, AND RICHLY-DRAWN CHARACTERS. FANTASTIC STORYTELLING."

    – MARC CAMERON

    New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Chain of Command and the Arliss Cutter series

  • "IT IS A TRUE PRIVILEGE TO READ A NEW LITERARY SUPERSTAR'S DEBUT EFFORT. WITH THE HANDLER, M. P. WOODWARD JOINS JOHN LE CARRE, KEN FOLLETT, LEN DEIGHTON AND DANIEL SILVA IN THE FRONT RANK OF SPY THRILLER SUPERSTARS. UNMATCHED AUTHENTICITY, GREAT CHARACTERS, A DAZZLING PLOT... I WAS MESMERIZED. TRUST ME– YOU WILL BE TOO."

    – STEPHEN COONTS

    author of Flight of the Intruder, Liberty's Last Stand and many others.

  • “IN THIS IMMERSIVE, ACTION-PACKED THRILLER WE FOLLOW SENIOR CIA OFFICER MEREDITH MORRIS-DALE AS SHE IS FORCED TO RECRUIT HER FORMER COLLEAGUE AND EX-HUSBAND TO RUN AN ASSET IN A CASE WITH ENORMOUS STAKES. WOODWARD DOES EVERYTHING RIGHT: HE CREATES COMPLICATED AND COMPELLING CHARACTERS – THE BEATING HEART OF ALL GREAT SPY NOVELS – AND PUTS THEM IN A GRIPPING AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED RIGHT TO THE LAST PAGE.“

    – CARLTON CUSE

    Co-creator of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and writer/showrunner of Lost.

  • “M.P. WOODWARD'S BRILLIANT ESPIONAGE THRILLER, THE HANDLER, OOZES AUTHENTICITY AND TENSION FROM EVERY PAGE. THIS IS ONE YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!”

    – MARK GREANEY

    Author of the Gray Man Series

  • “PACKED WITH TWISTS, TURNS, AND JAW-DROPPING SURPRISES… A SMART, EXPERTLY-CRAFTED ELECTRIFYING DEBUT THAT’S NOT TO BE MISSED”

    – THE REAL BOOK SPY

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