I Must Betray You

About this book

A gut-wrenching startling window into communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation from the #1 New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. Romania 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer but Romanians arent free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauescu in a country governed by isolation and fear Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Hes left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he lovesor use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe. Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime give voice to fellow Romanians and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom? Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys is back with a historical thriller that examines the little-known history of a nation defined by silence pain and the unwavering conviction of the human spirit.