I Must Betray You

Name: I Must Betray You
Rating: 4.4 (110356 reviews)

by Ruta Sepetys

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Bucharest, 1989. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu wants to become a writer, but life under Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship is governed by shortages, propaganda and fear of the Securitate. When the secret police discover a vulnerability they can exploit, Cristian is blackmailed into informing on an American diplomat and must conceal his new role from family and friends.

As communist governments begin to collapse elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Cristian tries to turn the position forced upon him against the regime. Every conversation may be monitored and every confidence may be a trap, but the growing Romanian uprising offers a dangerous chance to expose the truth and decide what freedom, loyalty and betrayal mean when survival itself requires deception.