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Average rating3.7
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva’s celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is “A ROLLER-COASTER WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth” (The Orlando Sentinel). “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 is the beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer—and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler: uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...
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Very well written and evenly paced. The various levels of subterfuge is cleverly done, leaving you frustrated and berwilded in turn. It's not 5 from me because I lost interest towards the end when the POV narrowed and became more procedural. It was such a different tone from the rest of the book.
Who doesn't love a WWII spy novel?!
This was totally solid and I wouldn't mind recommending it as a beach read. This is more espionage and less international assassin. More intrigue and less action. But, that's what I appreciated about it.
The one drawback was the incredibly awkward sex scene. I mean INCREDIBLY awkward. On the other hand, Silva wrote surveillance and countersurveillance as well as anyone.