The Unlikely Spy
by Silva, Daniel
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Very Fine +
- ISBN 10
- 0679455620
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455622
- Seller
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Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
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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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- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9645000123
- Title
- The Unlikely Spy
- Author
- Silva, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679455620
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455622
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- ENGLAND FICTION LONDON ESPIONAGE
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