num_pages: 481
description: "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...
language: English
title: The Unlikely Spy
titlecomplete: The Unlikely Spy
characters: Alfred Vicary, Peter Jordan, Horst Neumann, Sir Basil Boothby, Walker Hardegen, Grace Clarendon, Martin & Jenny Colville, Brendan Evans, Sean & Mary Dogherty, Harry Dalton, Anna von Steiner
genres: Suspense, Mystery, Fiction, Espionage, Spy Thriller, Thriller, Historical Fiction, War, World War II, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 24826
places: London, England, Oyster Bay, New York, Spain, Suffolk, England
publisher: Villard