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The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable

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Also by Michelle Gable:

Darling Beasts, July 2025
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Darling Beasts, July 2025
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The Beautiful People, April 2024
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The Lipstick Bureau, December 2022
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The Bookseller's Secret, August 2021
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The Summer I Met Jack, April 2020
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The Summer I Met Jack, June 2018
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A Paris Apartment, May 2014
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The Lipstick Bureau
Michelle Gable

A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy

Graydon House
December 2022
On Sale: December 27, 2022
Featuring: Niki Novotná
436 pages
ISBN: 1525804901
EAN: 9781525804908
Kindle: B09P1MQPQN
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers.

Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others—now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau—find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.

As the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. But one step out of line, one mistake, could mean life or death…

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