The Unlikely Spy

Silva, Daniel

ISBN 10: 0679455620 / ISBN 13: 9780679455622

Published by Villard Books (Random House), New York, 1997

About this Item

This 1997 Villard ( Random House) 1st Edition/2nd Printing is Silva's first thriller. It is ***SIGNED*** by the author on the title page. Condition: The hardback is in Near Fine condition with a sanded out owner initials on the first facing front end page. The dustjacket is in Fine condition. **Brenbooks specializes in first edition thriller, many signed!**.

Seller Inventory # 010688

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unlikely Spy
• Publisher: Villard Books (Random House), New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679455620
• ISBN 13: 9780679455622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Catherine Blake 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.

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.

Against this backdrop comes Daniel Silva's The Unlikely Spy, 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 shadowy paths -- a grand canvas of intrigue that sweeps the reader along in a breathtaking race against time. If Catherine escapes to Germany, the Nazis will know the Allied invasion will be at Normandy; and if Vicary doesn't stop her, all of Britain's greatest wartime deceptions and ploys will have been for naught.

But why does it seem as if Vicary's superiors want him to fail?

For lovers of Jack Higgins, Frederick Forsyth, and Len Deighton, The Unlikely Spy is a masterpiece of war and deception, a wholly original and spellbinding tale of the Allies' finest hour.

About the Author

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 Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Inside Politics Weekend, Late Edition, and Evans & Novak. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, NBC Today Show correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children. He is currently working on his second novel.