num_pages: 752
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: Brendan Evans, Peter Jordan, Grace Clarendon, Sir Basil Boothby, Horst Neumann, Martin & Jenny Colville, Alfred Vicary, Sean & Mary Dogherty, Harry Dalton, Walker Hardegen, Anna von Steiner
genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Spy Thriller, Espionage, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, War, Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 24825
places: Oyster Bay, New York, London, England, Suffolk, England, Spain
publisher: Signet