5 Dec 2018

Book review - The Kingfisher Secret by Anonymous

From Nine To Noon, 10:39 am on 5 December 2018

Elisabeth Easther reviews The Kingfisher Secret by Anonymous, which is published by Penguin Random House.

"The Kingfisher Secret is a thinly veiled depiction of Donald and Ivana Trump’s marriage. Although the names have changed, the conceit is that Ivana is an eastern bloc infiltrator, known as a swallow, trained to inveigle her way into ambitious western men’s lives, drive their rise and engineer their fall. And her mark is American businessman Anthony Craig, a dead-ringer for Donald Trump. Said to be based in part on speculation from the international intelligence community, whether that’s true or not, it’s great fun to imagine. And if it is true, the stakes would be ridiculously high so to ramp up the ‘is it, isn’t it’  tension, the author has chosen to remain anonymous."