About “The Unlikely Spy”

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva’s celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is “A ROLLER-COASTER WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth” (The Orlando Sentinel). “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 is the beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer—and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler: uncover the Allied plans for D-Day... (Description courtesy of Penguin Random House.)

Praise for “The Unlikely Spy”

“Evocative…memorable…a classic World War II espionage tale.”

— The Washington Post

“Briskly suspenseful.”

— The New York Times

“A satisfying and fast-paced World War II espionage thriller.”

— San Francisco Examiner

Book details

Published
1996
Latest edition
1996 · ISBN 9780451209306
ISBN
9780451209306

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How many pages is The Unlikely Spy?

The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva has 544 pages.

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