The Unlikely Spy - Hardcover

Silva, Daniel

 
9780679455622: The Unlikely Spy

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In 1943 London, Professor Alfred Vicary, a mild-mannered academic turned spycatcher, plays a cat-and-mouse game with beautiful Catherine Blake, an undercover German mole and trained assassin out to unearth the secret of the D-Day invasion. A first novel. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

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Daniel Silva, a veteran newspaper and television journalist, is the executive producer of CNN's Washington-based public affairs programming, including such popular series as <b>Crossfire</b>, <b>The Capital Gang</b>, <b>Inside Politics Weekend</b>, <b>Late Edition</b>, and <b>Evans & Novak</b>. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, NBC <b>Today Show</b> correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children. He is currently working on his second novel.

Daniel Silva is the executive producer of CNN's Washington-based public affairs programming.

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ake is the model war widow. Ever since she lost her RAF pilot husband in the Battle of Britain, this beautiful aristocrat has kept a stiff upper lip while caring for victims of the blitz in London's hospitals. The problem is that Catherine Blake is also a deep-cover Nazi spy, charged by Hitler with uncovering the details of D-Day.<br><br>Her nemesis is Alfred Vicary, a fumbling professor of history barely able to remember where he placed his threadbare tweed jacket, let alone sustain a relationship. But Vicary is also a confidant of Winston Churchill's, who has chosen this reclusive don to run England's critical counterintelligence operations.<br><br>Against this backdrop comes Daniel Silva's <b>The Unlikely Spy</b>, a sophisticated and altogether exceptional World War II thriller. Based on fact, Silva's fast-paced novel moves effortlessly from the Berlin High Command's espionage centers to the U-boat-infested North Sea, from the privileged playgrounds of Long Island to Hyde Park's s

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