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This is Helen MacInnes' first book, written in 1941. The book takes place in 1939, so the events are raw for the author I would say. Richard and Frances Myles are asked by a friend to work with an anti-Nazi spy to ring to determine what happened to someone in their chain of agents. The events take place in the summer of 1939, while Europe is waiting for the other shoe to drop that will surely bring war. Their friend is convinced that they will have no problems because they are so "innocent" look
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MacInnes was a Scottish-born author of 20+ popular espionage thrillers witten from the 1940s-80s, of which this is the first. The plot concerns an Oxford professor of lyric poetry and his wife, who are recruited by British intelligence in 1939 to travel to Germany and Austria to try and see what has happened to one of their networks. Having spent many summers vacationing in the same mountain regions, they are to pose as their regular selves and cautiously make contact via a series of elaborate r
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Feb 20, 2023
Linda Martin
marked it as to-read
