num_pages: 368
description: Los Angeles 1943. As the Allies beat back the Nazis in the Mediterranean and the United States military slowly closes in on Tokyo Walt Disney cranks out wartime propaganda and the Cocoanut Grove is alive with jazz and swing each night. But behind this sunny faade lies a darker reality. Somewhere in the lush foothills of Hollywood a woman floats lifeless in the pool of one of Californias trendiest hotels. When American-born secret agent and British spy Maggie Hope learns that this woman was engaged to her old flame John Sterling and that he suspects her death was no accident intuition tells her hes right. Leaving London under siegenot to mention flying thousands of milesis a lot to ask. But John was once the love of Maggies life . . . and she wont say no. Maggie is shocked to find Los Angeles as divided as Europe itselfthe Zoot Suit Riots loom large and the Ku Klux Klan casts a long shadow. As she marvels at the hatred in her home country she cant help but wonder what it will be like to see her lost love once again. But there is little time to dwell on memories once she starts digging into the case. As she traces a web of deception from the infamous Garden of Allah to the iconic Carthay Theater she discovers things arent always the way things appear in the moviesand the political situation in America is more complicated and dangerous than the newsreels would have them all believe.
language: English
title: The Hollywood Spy
publisher: Bantam