BOOK BITES | Nesrine Malik, August Thomas, Herman Koch

When terrorists bomb an Independence Day garden party at the US Embassy in Ankara, intern Penny Kessler becomes a social media meme. #TheGirlWithTheFlag clambers from the wreckage, inadvertently draped in the giant Stars-and-Stripes that she had just won in the party bingo.

The remaining narrative is not taxing: plucky Penny is soon being hunted by the Turks and the CIA, both wanting her dead; she teams up with a rookie US spy, who breaks ranks to help her, and together they defeat the forces of darkness. This is a disappointingly lightweight debut, providing about as much sustenance as the wieners-and-Coke of that ill-fated embassy bash. It's espionage-lite, basted in no-taste Budweiser and decorated with a few sprigs of low-cal Turkish greenery.

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