The ranks of female spy novelists are about to get some competition from a woman with a notorious spy past: former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. Blue Rider Press announced this week that early next year it will publish Blowback, the “first in a series of world-stage thrillers,” featuring a character named Vanessa Pierson. Pierson is described as a CIA operative with a “clandestine lover,” also in the CIA.
Wilson earlier wrote the nonfiction Fair Game, which told of her CIA career and having her cover blown by the late columnist Robert Novak, in an episode that became a scandal of the Bush administration. The book, for which she was reportedly paid a $2.5 million advance, was heavily redacted by the CIA, but still became a movie in 2010, starring Naomi Watts as Wilson and Sean Penn as her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson.
After the federal investigation into the leak of her identity, and a number of lawsuits, the Wilsons moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they still reside. Wilson’s co-author will be writer Sarah Lovett, who also lives in Santa Fe.
The catalogue from Blue Rider exclaims emphatically that the Valerie Plame Wilson spy novels will be “the inside story as only fiction can tell! She knows how the games are played.”
Valerie Plame Wilson: From Spy to Spy Novelist
The former CIA operative will pen a series of “world-stage thrillers,” the first of which will be published early next year.
The ranks of female spy novelists are about to get some competition from a woman with a notorious spy past: former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. Blue Rider Press announced this week that early next year it will publish Blowback, the “first in a series of world-stage thrillers,” featuring a character named Vanessa Pierson. Pierson is described as a CIA operative with a “clandestine lover,” also in the CIA.
Wilson earlier wrote the nonfiction Fair Game, which told of her CIA career and having her cover blown by the late columnist Robert Novak, in an episode that became a scandal of the Bush administration. The book, for which she was reportedly paid a $2.5 million advance, was heavily redacted by the CIA, but still became a movie in 2010, starring Naomi Watts as Wilson and Sean Penn as her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson.
After the federal investigation into the leak of her identity, and a number of lawsuits, the Wilsons moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they still reside. Wilson’s co-author will be writer Sarah Lovett, who also lives in Santa Fe.
The catalogue from Blue Rider exclaims emphatically that the Valerie Plame Wilson spy novels will be “the inside story as only fiction can tell! She knows how the games are played.”
Most Popular in News & Politics
Best of Washington 2023: Things to Eat, Drink, Do, and Know Right Now
Washingtonian Magazine
October 2023: Best Brunches
View IssueSubscribe
Follow Us on Social
Follow Us on Social
Related
29 of the Best Things to Eat and Drink Around DC in 2023
29 of the Best Things to Do Around DC in 2023
16 of the Best Things to Know Around DC in 2023
Reader Picks: 26 Local Favorites Around DC in 2023
More from News & Politics
MAP: Weekend Street Closures in Downtown DC
“Shattered Glass”: An Oral History of the Media-Movie Cult Classic
You Can Get Divorced—but Not Married—in DC During a Government Shutdown
Hattie McDaniel’s Historic Oscar Went Missing. Howard University Will Soon Get a Replacement.
Don’t Miss Thursday’s Harvest Moon—the Last Supermoon of 2023
Is It Time to Rethink DC’s Most Macabre Museum?
Dan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past August and September
The US News College Rankings Are Out—but Do Area Schools Care?