Spy
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ISBN: 0871317036 / Publisher: M. Evans & Company, October 1992
Valerie Sinclair, a young woman with a photographic memory, is selected for a British intelligence mission behind German lines
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Time: World War IIPlace: England: the summer's heat wave, 1944"I've never met anyone quite like her, sir," the Lieutenant had been trying to put his finger on it, "but I'd say it's the way she thinks. If I may say so, sir, her logic is definitely...peculiar.""Her photographic memory. Have you forgotten? Carrington's told me it's as though she lives inside of it, like a skin."Young widow and mother Valerie Sinclair is a candidate for British Naval Intelligence when she is hand-picked for a treacherous assignment and personally approved by Winston Churchill because of the unique way her mind works. Alter a brutal training program and an elaborate scheme to hide her true identity, she will meet the challenge of her life on Operation GOLDILOCKS, an ultra-secret mission scheduled for launch behind German lines, into Occupied France. Converted by surgery, and disguised as a French schoolgirl, the purpose of Valerie's mission will be to effectively transfer the secrets of the first Atomic Bomb from German labs, via German and British banking partners, for the postwar benefit of the London Financial District.To succeed, she must avoid a faceless pursuer.Fitting his movements to hers, like a hand to a glove, is The Spy, the eerie mysterious figure who haunts her dreams and these pages. Moving with relentless resolve, The Spy be comes an uncanny part of the weavings in this startling revelation of international intrigue.Based on the memoirs of the real life British espionage agent Valerie Sinclair, this is the story of a war for information that would affect the national prosperity of England and the United States for years to come.
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