The Unlikely Spy Whitbread Award Nominee for Novel (2001) isn't the human factor the

isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'

Publication Date: 01 Sep 1996

Consists of: Mrs Dalloway (Very Good)

Author: Paul Auster

The Unlikely Spy Whitbread Award Nominee for Novel (2001) isn't the human factor theIn 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 imaginablea 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