Of street agents to the inner chambers of Churchill and Hitler, but it would take some serious magic to make this well-traveled territory seem fresh. Silva tries gamely to weave fact and fiction and to build suspense on several levels, from the nuts-and-bolts espionage Project, Vicary must scramble to uncover her identity and run her down before she escapes with the information. Once she is activated by her handlers in Berlin to zero in on a dashing but seemingly hapless American engineer working on the invasion Hospital who is actually a ruthless German agent, as skilled with her body as she is with a stiletto. Vicary's chief opponent is the beautiful Catherine Blake, a volunteer nurse in a London Hands: Operation Mulberry, the Allied plan to build two huge artificial harbors in southern England, then drag them across the Channel after D-Day. Alfred Vicary, the hero of Daniel Silva's spy thriller, is a meek, balding historian drafted into British intelligence by his pal Winston Churchill and given the job of keeping one of the most crucial secrets of World War II from falling into Nazi
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