The unlikely spy
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...
Subjects
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, espionage
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, thrillers, espionage
- large type books
- london (england), fiction
- secret service
- suspense
- world war, 1939-1945