- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Secret service, Suspense
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Silva
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Villard, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781440607271
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