A beautiful spy / Rachel Hore.
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TextPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: viii, 405 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471187179; 1471187179Subject(s): Great Britain. MI5. Secret Intelligence Service -- Officials and employees -- Fiction | Women spies -- Fiction | Women intelligence officers -- Fiction | Undercover operations -- Fiction | Suspicion -- Fiction | Communism -- Fiction | London (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Historical fiction. | Spy fiction. Summary: From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story. 'Fantastic... Exciting, impeccably researched and full of powerful period atmosphere' Daily Mail Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman. She is also a spy for the British government. It all began in the summer of 1928... Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem is it doesn't appeal to her at all. She is working as a secretary, but longs to make a difference. Then, one day, she gets her chance. She is recruited by the British government as a spy. Under strict instructions not to tell anyone, not even her family, she moves to London and begins her mission - to infiltrate the Communist movement. She soon gains the trust of important leaders. But as she grows more and more entangled in the workings of the movement, her job becomes increasingly dangerous.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111082140763 |
From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story. 'Fantastic... Exciting, impeccably researched and full of powerful period atmosphere' Daily Mail Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman. She is also a spy for the British government. It all began in the summer of 1928... Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem is it doesn't appeal to her at all. She is working as a secretary, but longs to make a difference. Then, one day, she gets her chance. She is recruited by the British government as a spy. Under strict instructions not to tell anyone, not even her family, she moves to London and begins her mission - to infiltrate the Communist movement. She soon gains the trust of important leaders. But as she grows more and more entangled in the workings of the movement, her job becomes increasingly dangerous.
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