num_pages: 266
description: New York City 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits sharp tongue and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup Vera learns war makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself.An exhilarating page turner and perceptive coming-of-age story WHO IS VERA KELLY? introduces an original wry and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: Who Is Vera Kelly?
publisher: Tin House Books