"Carpenter... brilliantly uses the conventions of spy fiction to expose the duplicity and betrayals in people's lives. In her chilly, unsparing dissection of the trickle-down effect the muddied morality of bureaucracies has on private lives, Carpenter reveals the influence of Joan Didion. Carpenter's mesmerizing follow-up to her acclaimed war novel, Eleven Days, is as deeply affecting as it is razor sharp."
--Kirkus Review (Starred)

"Lea Carpenter has written the perfect post-modern spy novel, a story of espionage but also of love and secrets. A stunning mix of prose and suspense: Imagine Joan Didion meets Alan Furst."
--Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Iraq

"Why does the stuff of espionage lie so close to essential matters of the human heart? Love, loyalty, lies, betrayal--Lea Carpenter plumbs the depths of all these in this brilliant, very possibly flawless book. I can think of no novel in recent memory that blends the personal and intimate so truly with power and conflict on the grand geopolitical scale. Red, White, Blue is a marvel and a masterpiece."
--Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

"Red, White, Blue is that rarest of rare literary jewels: a genre-bending masterpiece of brilliant story-telling that combines breathtaking skill with exquisite artistry."
--Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

"With the elegant restraint of an intelligence operative herself, Lea Carpenter unwinds the complex relationship between a daughter and her secretive father. Her book delves into the obscure culture of the CIA, but even deeper into the way that a man's necessarily hidden life impinges on his child's sense of coherence. This is a riveting and disturbing account of attachments that can never be fully resolved, a book about dignity and discretion and their oblique relationship to intimacy."
--Andrew Solomon, PhD, author of Far From the Tree