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By Daniel Silva

#1 New York Times bestselling writer Daniel Silva’s celebrated debut novel, The not going Spy, is “A ROLLER-COASTER global battle II experience that evokes thoughts of the easiest of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth” (The Orlando Sentinel).

“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so worthwhile that she must always be attended by way of a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this intended discovering the unlikeliest agent imaginable—a background professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by way of Churchill himself to reveal a hugely harmful, yet unknown, traitor. The Nazis, in spite of the fact that, have additionally selected an not likely agent. Catherine Blake is the gorgeous widow of a struggle hero, a clinic volunteer—and a Nazi secret agent below direct orders from Hitler: discover the Allied plans for D-Day...

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In addition to, it’s not often a failure. ” Boothby stopped pacing. “What could you name it? ” “A transitority setback. ” Boothby snorted and overwhelmed out his cigarette. “I won't allow you to tarnish the attractiveness of this division, Alfred. I won’t have it. ” “Perhaps there’s anything else you'll want to think about in addition to the recognition of this division, Sir Basil. ” “What’s that? ” Vicary struggled out of the tender, deep sofa. “If the spies prevail, we may actually lose the conflict. ” “Well, then, do anything, Alfred. ” “Thank you, Sir Basil. That’s definitely sound suggestion. ” sixteen LONDON From Hyde Park they took a taxi into Earl’s courtroom. They paid off the driving force 440 yards from her flat. in the course of the brief stroll they doubled again two times, and Catherine made a bogus name from a cellphone field. They weren't being tailed. Her landlady, Mrs. Hodges, was once within the corridor as they arrived. Catherine threaded her arm via Neumann’s. Mrs. Hodges shot her a look of disapproval as they walked upstairs. Catherine was once reluctant to take him to her flat. She had jealously safe its whereabouts and refused to supply the handle to Berlin. the very last thing she wanted used to be a few agent at the run from MI5 to come back pounding on her door in the midst of the evening. yet assembly in public was once out of the query; that they had a lot to debate, and doing it in a café or a railway station used to be too harmful. She watched Neumann as he led himself on a travel of her flat. She might inform by means of the perfect stroll and in your price range gestures that he have been a soldier as soon as. His English used to be ideal. in actual fact, Vogel had selected him rigorously. at the very least he wasn’t sending a few rank beginner to short her. He went to the drawing room window, parted the curtains, and gazed down into the road. “Even if they’re in the market, you’ll by no means spot them,” Catherine stated as she sat down. “I know—but it makes me consider larger to appear. ” He got here clear of the window. “It’s been an extended day. i'll use a cup of tea. ” “Everything you would like is within the kitchen. aid your self. ” Neumann set water at the range to boil, then got here again into the room. “What’s your identify? ” she requested him. “Your genuine identify. ” “Horst Neumann. ” “You’re a soldier. not less than you was one. What’s your rank? ” “I’m a lieutenant. ” She smiled. “I outrank you, incidentally. ” “Yes, I know—Major. ” “What’s your conceal identify? ” “James Porter. ” “Let me see your id. ” He passed it throughout. She tested it rigorously. It used to be a superb forgery. She gave it again to him. “It’s good,” she stated. “But convey it provided that it truly is totally beneficial. What’s your conceal? ” “I used to be wounded at Dunkirk and invalided out of the military. I’m a touring salesman now. ” “Where are you staying? ” “The Norfolk coast—a village referred to as Hampton Sands. Vogel has an agent there named Sean Dogherty. He’s an IRA sympathizer who runs a small farm. ” “How did you input the rustic? ” “Parachute. ” “Very impressive,” she acknowledged really. “And Dogherty took you in? He was once looking ahead to you? ” “Yes. ” “Vogel contacted him by means of radio? ” “I imagine so, convinced.

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