| The Unlikely Spy Contributor(s): Silva, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0451209303 ISBN-13: 9780451209306 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: Silva's stunning debut novel--a BOMC Selection that spent five weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list--tells an evocative, classic tale of espionage during World War II. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Gabriel Allon Novels |
| Physical Information: 1.59" H x 4.27" W x 7.53" (0.94 lbs) 752 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva's celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is "A ROLLER-COASTER WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth" (The Orlando Sentinel). "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 is the beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer--and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler: uncover the Allied plans for D-Day... |