Red Joan
By: Jennie Rooney
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781609452049
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Official secrets; Women spies; Fiction
Description: "Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman unmasked in 1999, at age 87, as the KGB's longest-serving British spy, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a brilliant young physicist during the Second World War ... Risking both career and conscience, leaking information to the Soviets, but struggling to maintain her own semblance of morality, Joan is caught at a crossroads in which all paths lead to the same end-game: the deployment of the atomic bomb."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 387)