The Unlikely Spy
, by Silva, DanielNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780451209306 | 0451209303
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/6/2003
"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...