A Map of Betrayal

From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countriesChina and the United Statesand two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her fathers diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diaryan astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginiareveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The trail leads Lilian to China, to her fathers long-abandoned other family, whose existence she and her Irish American mother never suspected. As Lilian begins to fathom her fathers dilemmatorn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted countryshe sees how his sense of duty distorted his life. But as she starts to understand that Gary, too, had been betrayed, she finds that it is up to her to prevent his tragedy from damaging yet another generation of her family.