Red Joan
To change the world, she betrayed her country
ThrillerHistorylondon, englandbased on novel or bookatomic bombspycold warworld war iisoviet unionbased on true storycambridgeco-workers relationshipolder man younger woman relationshipfemale spy
A historical spy thriller that traces an elderly woman's arrest back through her idealistic youth, exploring the moral complexities of Cold War espionage and the cost of conviction.
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
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