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Touchstone
June 2007
On Sale: May 22, 2007
336 pages ISBN: 1416537945 EAN: 9781416537946 Kindle: B000QCTNGE Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical | Thriller Historical
In this debut of a uniquely talented novelist, Ian
Fleming's real world of spies, love, passion, and danger is
brought to life when a young woman inherits Fleming's
long-hidden account of spying during World War II and must
finish it to find out why people are trying to kill
her. In 1964, James Bond's creator sealed a package
containing a manuscript he thought no one would read until
fifty years after his death. Ian Fleming was an officer in
Britain's Naval Intelligence during World War II, and he had
his own adventures to recount. His family ties and his
career had taken him to the upper echelons of British and
American society and espionage, a world where passionate
affairs, exotic locations, and polite cocktail chatter were
interlaced with danger, betrayal, and deceit. He'd
replicated that world in his famous novels, but this
manuscript contained a real spy story that would explode
history when its secrets were revealed. He'd chosen the
reader, and he'd have to trust she would serve the
truth. In 2005, Amy Greenberg -- a young American
academic with a glittering future -- is summoned to Ireland
to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe deposit box,
in which she finds only one thing: a manuscript by Ian
Fleming. The pages detail Fleming's involvement in Allied
spycraft and contain information so confidential, so
potentially explosive, that Amy soon discovers that people
on both sides of the Atlantic are willing to kill to
maintain its secrecy. As she journeys back home with her
precious cargo, Amy finds herself in a race against time --
she must unlock the manuscript's shocking and fascinating
secrets and outwit the unknown assailants who would do
anything to bury the truth and protect a traitor's
name. Peopled with characters including Winston
Churchill, Princess Diana, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
Anthony Blunt, and FDR and illustrated with authenticating
documents, In Secret Service is a historical mystery
inside a contemporary thriller. The debut of an
exciting new writer, this book combines impeccable research
with thrilling action, in a brand-new take on espionage
suspense.
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