num_pages: 559
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 agents imaginable - including a history professor named Alfred Vicary. Handpicked by Churchill himself, Vicary must stop an unknown spy from uncovering the Allied battle plans for D-Day. The Nazis, however, have also chosen their operative carefully. Posing as a war widow and hospital volunteer, Catherine Blake is under direct orders from Hitler to seal the German victory — no matter what the cost.
language: English
title: The Unlikely Spy
titlecomplete: The Unlikely Spy
characters: Brendan Evans, Sean & Mary Dogherty, Grace Clarendon, Peter Jordan, Anna von Steiner, Martin & Jenny Colville, Horst Neumann, Alfred Vicary, Walker Hardegen, Harry Dalton, Sir Basil Boothby
genres: Spy Thriller, Mystery, World War II, Suspense, War, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 24824
places: Oyster Bay, New York, Spain, London, England, Suffolk, England
publisher: Ballantine