A Woman of Intelligence

A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the plaza, two healthy sons, and a handsome husband: What looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. It's 1954, and the postwar American dream has become a nightmare.  A born-and-bred New Yorker, Katharina is the daughter of immigrants, Ivy League educated, and speaks four languages. As a single girl in 1940s Manhattan, she was a translator at the newly formed United Nations, devoting her days to her work and the promise of world peace--and her nights to cocktails and the promise of a good time.  Now the wife of a beloved pediatric surgeon and heir to a shipping fortune, Katharina is trapped in a gilded cage, desperate to escape the constraints of domesticity. So when she is approached by the FBI and asked to join their ranks as an informant, Katharina seizes the opportunity. A man from her past has become a high-level Soviet spy, but no one has been able to infiltrate his circle. Enter Katharina, the perfect woman for the job.