Enlightenment

Jeannie Wakefield needs help. Her family is being held by the US authorities. M is a journalist and at Jeannie's request she returns to Istanbul to investigate. She tries to be objective, but Jeannie's husband is also M's first love. A fascinating story that is based upon Maureen Freely's experiences of being American in Turkey during the cold war. The story includes intriguing details about the occurring cold-war conflicts, and later also about the islamophobia that occurred in the U.S. after 9/11. I particularly liked the in-depth details about spies, and that they can be detected through their too-perfect Turkish, and also about the difficulties Jeannie faced when attempting to move back to the U.S. from an Eastern country.