The Unlikely Spy (Inscribed)
by Silva, Daniel
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Surprise, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09367
- Title
- The Unlikely Spy (Inscribed)
- Author
- Silva, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Villard/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
Terms of Sale
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
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About the Seller
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- Title Page
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Inscribed
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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