“Starting with a baffling double murder in a snowstorm in Delaware.

There, Emma is forced to confront the truth-about her family and about history as we know it. When a discovery leads her to her family’s remote Adirondack cabin, the stranger follows. It’s about an operation that is still in play in 1978, one that puts Emma-and the broader world-at risk. And it soon becomes apparent that this isn’t just about something that happened in the 1940s. As Emma’s research and the CIA’s investigation into the death of their agent begin to intersect, she no longer knows who or what to believe.

Together, they head deeper into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War and the early days of the intelligence community. Her distress grows when she meets a well-known historian, a Scotsman and Sovietologist named Angus McLearan, who accuses her late grandfather of wrongdoing during the 1930s and ‘40s.ĭetermined to clear her grandfather’s name and to understand her grandmother’s fate, Emma forms an uneasy alliance with McLearan. Back in Manhattan, Emma is being followed by a mysterious stranger. A history professor at Columbia and the sole heir to the Quinn fortune, she heads down to Delaware, where her grandmother’s death has triggered a series of unsettling events-a break-in at the estate, an unexpected visit from the CIA and the discovery of a disturbing collection of news clippings in an upstairs study-about hijackings, bombings and acts of terror. When Emma Quinn gets a call in her Manhattan apartment-your grandmother, out walking her dog, found dead in the snow-she has no reason to suspect foul play. Nearby, in a deep ravine, a CIA officer lies buried under two feet of snow. BRUCE WEBER, journalist and author of Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituaristĭuring the blizzard of 1978, a woman is discovered face down at the edge of her Delaware estate, a boxer, half-dead, by her side. And oh yeah, a pleasure to read, written, sentence by sentence, with the eye of a shrewd observer and the ear of a writer who knows language is music.” thought-provoking as both history and fiction. scrupulously researched, cagily and compellingly plotted and eminently credible.

“Susan Bacon's THE HISTORY TEACHER is a rare thriller.

The History Teacher by Susan Bacon