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The unlikely spyThe unlikely spy

The unlikely spy1996

Daniel Silva

About this book

In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: Catherine Blake, a beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer-and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...

Details

First published
1996
OL Work ID
OL1814739W

Subjects

FictionWorld War, 1939-1945Secret serviceSuspenseEngland, fictionFiction, espionageLondon (england), fictionFiction, mystery & detective, generalLarge type booksFiction, thrillers, espionage

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