num_pages: 384
description: When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet no one had any idea that she would go on to live a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious (Time). As the US enters the Second World War the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Alines life changes when at a dinner party she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks he helps her join the Office of Strategic Servicesforerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt she is sent to Spain to be a coder but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society mingling with high-ranking officials diplomats and titled Europeans any of whom could be an enemy agent. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage to counter Nazi tactics in Madrid. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones one of the wealthiest men in Spain Aline secretly continues her covert activities being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. Filled with twists romance and plenty of white-knuckled adventures fit for a James Bond film The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a remarkable American woman who risked everything to serve her country.
language: English
title: The Princess Spy
publisher: Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc.