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I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys
Illustrator: archival photos
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Philomel Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-1-984836-03-8
Keywords: Romania, revolution, Communism, authoritarian government, dictators, betrayal, spies
In 1989 the extreme deprivations of Romania's authoritarian Ceaușescu regime drive Cristian, 17, to spy on an American diplomat to secure medicine for his grandfather. Archival photos. Historical notes, lengthy bibliography.