Carol J. Williams book talk and signing at Politics and Prose in Washington DC

Carol J. Williams, author of Dispatches from Moscow: Spies and Lies will be the featured author at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington DC, with discussion partner Marie Yovanovitch.

Inspired by the author’s own experiences as a Moscow correspondent during perestroika, Dispatches from Moscow is a meticulously researched thriller that captures the danger of journalism in an authoritarian state and the impossible choices faced by those who dare to imagine a better world. It’s a story of professional ambition and personal sacrifice, of idealism tested by reality, and of a love that burns brightest in the shadow of the Iron Curtain’s final days.

Carol J. Williams is a retired foreign correspondent who covered the historic upheaval that ended the Cold War in an award-winning 35-year career with Associated Press and Los Angeles Times. She lived through the USSR’s brief era of hope for reform and the tragic consequences of its failure. She followed Eastern Europe’s euphoric rebellions that toppled Communist tyrants from Berlin to Bucharest.