The Good Spy Wife

About the Book

The Good Spy Wife is a story of aging FBI agent, Gunter Martini, as told by his wife, Bootsie. The saga begins with her suspicions that the next-door neighbor, Alexander, is a Russian agent. The reader is drawn into the drama as the story explodes along with the cigarette boat when Gunter dares to venture out for a boat ride to Bomb Island on the 50,000 acres Lake Murray on the night of a impending hurricane. His drowning is dubious, as no body floats to the surface. The wife trusts in God and believes that he is alive. When he reappears later in the Soviet Union he invites his wife to join him as he works toward an assignment involving the elimination of the American president, as the Soviet country believes the President of the United States and his democratic ideals stand in the way of progress for the Soviet Union. He must die, as the current leadership in America is an affront for growth of the new Russia. Set during the Cold War in the late 1980s, Bootsie and Gunter struggle with separation during difficult times in their own marriage. Bootsie grows spiritually through the unexplained meeting of strangers who appear to her as angels, and through drawing on her own strengths when alone. Ultimately, after many twists and turns of the story, the couple realizes that God is the only help for the frailty of their lives, and each makes plans to rebuild his or her life around their new beliefs. However, will this turn out to be the happy conclusion? One can only discover this knowledge through reading the book.

About the Author

After a lifetime of traveling with her husband in his military and government careers the author, Julia Elaine Allcut, returned to her roots in rural South Carolina. Planning to retire from bedside nursing, she acquired a master’s in nursing at the University of South Carolina and taught nursing courses at a technical college in nearby Newberry. After more than a decade of teaching, she retired and set the writing of her first novel as her next goal. Prior to writing and publishing The Good Spy Wife the author penned children stories, numerous poems, as well as researched and wrote about the nursing concept: The Theory of Touch as related to bedside nursing. The Good Spy Wife results from five years of gaining knowledge in the art of writing through conferences, writers’ groups, and research into the world of the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and his antithesis, the Soviet spy. She learned much about the world of espionage firsthand from observing her husband, as well as from living as a spy wife in the suburbs of New Orleans; Washington, DC; and Columbia, South Carolina throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Her newly released book is also the result of a lifetime of learning, seeking for knowledge of God through his word, and using parallels from her own life when telling an amusing fictional story that she hopes will be interesting and inspirational to others.