Soon after the birth, Lambert makes the horrific discovery about Jean-Pierre’s affiliation with the Soviet Union’s KGB. After a couple of months, she realizes she is pregnant, and then gives natural birth to a daughter that the couple names Chantal. During this time, she becomes comfortable in the town, making a number of Afghan friends. After falling quickly in love, she agrees to marry him, following him to Afghanistan to aid Soviet rebels. Jean-Pierre Debout, seemingly by chance, in Paris (later events question whether it was chance). After her split from Ellis, Lambert meets Dr. She leaves him immediately, itching to restart her life. Despite her knowledge that he truly loves her, Lambert is outraged at his deceit and his distorted moral system. One day, he lets slip that he is a covert CIA agent working to collect intelligence on Russian operations in Paris and the rest of Europe. Lambert starts the novel confident that she will soon marry Ellis and live a fulfilling life in political activism. Lambert lives in a small flat and dates Ellis, whom she believes is an American anti-war activist and pacifist who makes money as a writer. The novel begins in Paris during the last decade of the Cold War.

Traumatized and caught in the middle of these two diametrically opposed men who want to kill each other, she tries to reclaim some of her agency and keep them from destroying themselves or each other. When she investigates, she finds that he has been providing medical aid to the rebels while giving the Russians more intel to kill them off. When she finds that Jean-Pierre is a Soviet spy, she is horrified.

She decides to follow his career to Afghanistan, where they will ostensibly give medical aid to a village of rebels uniting against the invasive Soviet regime.

When Lambert, an idealistic woman who supports pacifism and revolutionary liberation politics, finds out Ellis’s real occupation, she leaves him to date a French doctor, Dr. Made into a 1994 TV series, it follows Jane Lambert, an English interpreter living in 1981 Paris, who dates Ellis Thaler, oblivious that he is a spy for the CIA. Lie Down with Lions is a 1985 spy novel by Ken Follett.

Lie down with lions