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0451209303 Signet (paperback) ($7.99)
"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...
"Evocative… memorable… A classic World War II espionage tale."
-The Washington Post
"Briskly suspenseful."
-The New York Times
"Breathtaking… Compelling… A roller-coast World War II adventure that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth."
-The Orlando Sentinel
"Layers of depth and intrigue… Silva succeeds with panache."
-USA Today
"Silva has clearly done is homework, mixing fact and fiction to delicious effect and building tension-with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot-like a seasoned pro."
-People
"A first novel of remarkable ingenuity and daring... This is a book that will stick in your imagination long after you have figured out where all the pieces fit."
-Playboy
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