The Unlikely Spy, Paperback

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#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...