Cutout

Katherine Karis is twenty-seven, former CIA, and very good at finding people who don't want to be found.

Fourteen months after walking away from the Agency, she's freelancing in Lisbon, wasting elite skills on corporate surveillance jobs, and trying to figure out what comes next. When her former handler connects her with a human rights organization whose field researcher has gone missing in Prague, Karis takes the case. Simple job. Find the woman. Bring her home.

Nothing about it is simple.

Lena Kovac vanished because she uncovered something she wasn't supposed to see: a covert operation using trafficked engineers to build a surveillance platform worth hundreds of millions on the black market. Now the people who built it want Lena silenced, and they'll use anyone to find her.

Including Karis.

Because the woman helping Karis search for Lena is the woman who wants Lena dead. And Karis won't know it until she's already led the wolf to the lamb.

Cutout is a propulsive, psychologically rich spy thriller about trust, betrayal, and the cost of moral clarity in a world that punishes it. With the tradecraft authenticity of John le Carre, the relentless pacing of Lee Child, and a protagonist who announces a major new voice in the genre, this is the book that spy thriller readers have been waiting for.

Cutout is the first book in the Katherine Karis series.