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...
Book Details
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10
0451209303
ISBN-13
9780451209306
Publication Date
May 2003
Item Weight
0.88 pounds
Length
7.44 inch
Width
4.17 inch
Height
1.57 inch
First Sentence
Beatrice Pymm died because she missed the last bus to Ipswich.