The Unlikely Spy

Jacket Description/Flap: The time is 1943, London. Professor Alfred Vicary, a mild mannered academic, friend of Churchill, is drafted into M15 to help break the most horrifying intelligence case of World War II--the existence of a Nazi spy ring in England that is ferreting out the secret of the D-Day invasion. Vicary's "opponent" is Catherine Blake, a beautiful, perfect young Brit, a volunteer in the emergency wards during the Blitz, a heartbreaker--and deep German mole, a trained assassin and a determined killer. Their game of cat and mouse, with the success of the European invasion at stake--is the riveting saga of "The Unlikely Spy. Publisher Marketing: 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?Publisher Marketing: 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 agents imaginable including a history professor named Alfred Vicary. Handpicked by Churchill himself, Vicary must stop an unknown spy from uncovering the Allied battle plans for D-Day. The Nazis, however, have also chosen their operative carefully. Posing as a war widow and hospital volunteer, Catherine Blake is under direct orders from Hitler to seal the German victory no matter what the cost. Layers of depth and intrigue Silva succeeds with panache. "USA Today"" Review Citations:

Library Journal 09/15/2009 pg. 34 (EAN 9781423368335, Compact Disc)

Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/1996 pg. 160 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 11/01/1996 pg. 1561 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 12/02/1996 pg. 42 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover)

Library Journal 12/01/1996 pg. 147 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

New York Times 02/09/1997 pg. 20 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover)

Booklist 01/01/1997 pg. 824 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/1997 pg. 74 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1997 pg. 73 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover)

Library Journal 09/01/1996 (EAN 9780679455622, Hardcover)

Library Journal 09/01/1996 pg. 160 (EAN 9780553477344, Analog Audio Cassette)

Contributor Bio:  Silva, Daniel Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Moscow Rules and 10 other international bestselling spy novels. Best known for his Gabriel Allon series, his books are translated into more than 25 languages. Silva lives in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC with his wife, NBC Today National Correspondent Jamie Gangel and their twins Lily and Nicholas. Photo of the author: John Earle, photographerContributor Bio:  Page, Michael Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since 1984 and has over two hundred titles to his credit. He has won several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards, including for "The War That Killed Achilles" by Caroline Alexander and "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch.