num_pages: 352
description: A beguiling tale of espionage. -- Pam Jenoff author of The Orphans Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris A twisting sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5in chasing the secrets of others how much will she lose of herself? Evelyn Varley has always been ambitious and clever. As a girl she earned a scholarship to a prestigious academy well above her parents means gaining her a best friend from one of Englands wealthiest families. In 1939 with an Oxford degree in hand and war looming Evelyn finds herself recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit. A ruthless secret society seeks an alliance with Germany and posing as a Nazi sympathizer Evelyn must build a case to expose their treachery. But as she is drawn deeper into layers of duplicityperhaps of her own makingsome of those closest to her become embroiled in her investigation. With Evelyns loyalties placed under extraordinary pressure shell face an impossible save her country or the people who love her. Her decision echoes for years after the war impacting everyone who thought they knew the real Evelyn Varley. Beguiling and dark An Unlikely Spy is a fascinating story of deception and sacrifice based on the history of real people within the British intelligence community.
language: English
title: An Unlikely Spy
publisher: Ecco