The Cutout - Rilegato

"A brilliantly intelligent and thrilling read."
— Liz Smith

"Starts with a bang ... just the right mix of inter-office intrigue and high-stakes drama.... Mathews brings a real knowlege of the world of espionage to this international thriller."
— The Detroit News

"Fascinating, harrowing, page-flipping intrigue ...With obvious knowledge of the CIA's sources and methods, Mathews creates a vivid tale of seduction, betrayal, revenge, and international political intrigue ... the heroine of Francine Mathews's The Cutout is an intellectual, a high priestess of reason, a master of disguises — a CIA analyst .... Sequel please!"
— The Christian Science Monitor

"Francine Mathews has taken Armageddon and made it her own ... deftly positioning her post-Cold War spy novel in a deadly nest of terrorism."
— Rocky Mountain News

"Mathews's pacing is vigorous ... [she] has no shortage of imagination."
— People

"Francine Mathews writes with precision and authority. The Cutout is a top-rate spy thriller. I loved it."
— New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson

"Francine Mathews's The Cutout is not just a fresh new voice in international intrigue, it's a brand-new vision — intelligent, passionate, and unceasingly entertaining."
— Stephen White, New York Times-bestselling author of Cold Case

Francine Mathews spent four years as an intelligence analyst at the CIA, where she trained in operations and worked briefly on the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. A former journalist, she lives and writes in Colorado.