The Unlikely Spy
by Daniel Silva
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Author: Daniel SilvaEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-05-06
ISBN: 0451209303
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: The Unlikely Ending. All that equisite buildup, to a fatally flawed finale. Bother.
Summary: 3 Stars
Fun, suspensful, till...(Spoiler alert) Would a German Sub captain who knows a thirty-foot boat is full of English MI-5 just fire a shot across its bows? Worse--a 195 foot English Navy Corvette, armed with a 100mm gun, a two-pound pom pom gun, two 20mm guns, and depth charges--when one of these sub killers sees a German sub on the surface, would it not poke a hole or two in it, preventing the escape of a couple German spies? Would it really only shoot machine guns at the spies on their diapidated fishing boat, while allowing their escape route to escape? Silva, get a grip. Put out a corrected edition.
Summary of The Unlikely Spy
In this debut novel, veteran journalist Silva mines the reliable territory of World War II espionage to produce a gripping, historically detailed thriller. In early 1944 the Allies were preparing their invasion of Normandy; critical to the invasion's success was an elaborate set of deceptions--from phony radio signals to bogus airfields and barracks--intended to keep Hitler in the dark about when and where the Allied troops would arrive. Catherine Blake is the beautiful, ruthless spy who could bring the whole charade crashing down; Alfred Vicary is the brilliant but bumbling professor Churchill has tapped to protect the operation. Along with a teeming cast of other characters, real and fictional, they bring the chase to a furious and satisfying climax."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...
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