Lie Down With Lions

Lie Down With Lions by Ken Follett is a mindless romantic/spy novel about the war between the Soviet Union and Afghan rebels. The book is about a supposedly well-educated woman who falls in love with a CIA agent and then a spy for the Soviet Union, who travels to Afghanistan to be with her husband, the Soviet spy. The novel describes the conflict between the two men, one of whom (the Soviet spy) conveniently becomes abusive toward her, giving her an excuse to kill him and marry the CIA agent. This book was not as good as some other romance novels and chicklit books I have read, but it was okay for the airplane and the ship.