The unlikely spy

847 pages

English language

Published April 13, 1997 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
9780786211012

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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...

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Subjects

  • Large type books
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
  • London (England -- Fiction