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?
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