Nina Willner is the author of Forty Autumns, which Publishers Weekly called “a thrilling and relevant read” and which is still being feverishly read by book clubs eight years post-publication. Prior to her writing career, Nina was a US Army intelligence officer during the Cold War where she ran classified missions in East Berlin. Following a career in intelligence, Nina worked in Moscow, Minsk, Prague, Ottawa and Istanbul promoting human rights, children’s causes and the rule of law for the US Government, nonprofits and a variety of charities. Her next book, another narrative nonfiction, THE BOYS IN THE LIGHT (Penguin Random House (Dutton), will be released in July 2025.