<p><b>From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France<br><br>'The most exciting writer of her generation' </b>BRET EASTON ELLIS<br><br><b>'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture'</b> HERNAN DIAZ<br><br><b>'Compulsively readable... <i>Kill Bill</i> written by John le Carre' </b>OBSERVER<br><br>Sadie Smith - a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions - is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.<br><br>Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno'