The unlikely spy

By Daniel Silva

Subjects: London (england), fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, espionage, Secret service, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Suspense, Large type books, England, fiction

Description: 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...