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One year before its publication this January, Universal bought the rights to the spy thriller NEED TO KNOW by former CIA Analyst (and Fulbright scholar) Karen Cleveland.
Theron will produce the film through her Denver & Delilah Films production company, as well as star.
Cleveland wrote the book about a CIA analyst wife & mother who discovers her husband’s picture in a file while investigating Russian sleeper cells in the U.S.
Cleveland wrote the book while on maternity leave (!) from her job as a terrorism analyst at the CIA. She says she wrote the book during naptime or after her children went to bed.
The idea came to her after she first joined the CIA and was warned about foreign agents who may try to form relationships with her. When she first met her husband, shortly after joining the CIA, the thought occurred to her: What if he is too good to be true?
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect husband. Perfect father. Perfect liar?
“Terrific.”—John Grisham
“Superb.”—Lee Child
“Breathtaking, heart-pounding.”—Louise Penny
“A fast-paced, relentlessly gripping read.”—Chris Pavone
Vivian Miller. High-powered CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother of four beautiful children. Until the moment she makes a shocking discovery that makes her question everything she believes.
She thought she knew her husband inside and out. But now she wonders if it was all a lie. How far will she go to learn the truth? And does she really . . .
. . . NEED TO KNOW?
Film rights sold to Universal Pictures for Charlize Theron • Rights sold in more than 20 markets
“Shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest new thrillers.”—Entertainment Weekly
“So timely . . . Think of the perfect mix of Homeland and The Americans. . . . Need to Know needs to be read by all who relish spy novels. As entertaining as it is informative and as irresistible as it is impossible to put down.”—Providence Journal
“Pulse-pounding.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Accomplished . . . a nonstop thriller tapping into a hot mix of contemporary digital counterintelligence, old-school spying and ageless family drama.”—Shelf Awareness
“An early contender for next year’s Gone Girl.”—GQ (UK)
“The Russia page-turner that should be on everyone’s list.”—New York Post
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