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The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy

The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy Hardcover - 2022

by Gable, Michelle

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  • Hardcover

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Graydon House, 2022. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy
  • Author Gable, Michelle
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graydon House
  • Date 2022
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1525804901I4N10
  • ISBN 9781525804908 / 1525804901
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.35 x 1.4 in (23.55 x 16.13 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

From the publisher

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.


"A gripping, fascinating read." --Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan

1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotn 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...

Don't miss Michelle Gable's new spellbinding novel, The Beautiful People, where a failed debutante becomes a photographer's assistant and enters into Palm Beach's dazzling inner circle during the glamorous 1960s Jet Set...

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