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The Unlikely Spy.
by Silva, Daniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: two color binding -- red with black at the spine; gilt spine text; small gilt device on front cover; a Fine b
- ISBN 10
- 0679455620
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455622
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Villard Books, 1997.. 1st U.S. Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two color binding -- red with black at the spine; gilt spine text; small gilt device on front cover; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket design by Daniel Rembert. This was the author's first novel. . Villard is an imprint of Random House, and in keeping with the Random House first edition identifier practice, this has a statement on the copyright page: ''First U.S. Edition''; the lowest numeral in the print string is a ''2''. For those not familiar with the Random House practice from this general time period -- this does denote a first printing.
Synopsis
In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: Catherine Blake, a beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer-and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067720
- Title
- The Unlikely Spy.
- Author
- Silva, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: two color binding -- red with black at the spine; gilt spine text; small gilt device on front cover; a Fine b
- Edition
- 1st U.S. Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679455620
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455622
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1997.
- Pages
- 481 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (9.5 inches tall)
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