by Daniel Silva
(1996)
Publisher: Penguin
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.
Catherine Blake is the beautiful widow of a war hero. She is also a London hospital volunteer and a Nazi spy. Her mission, under direct orders from Hitler, are to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day and seal the German victory.
Fumbling history professor Alfred Vicary is Churchill’s confidante and leader of Britain’s counterintelligence operations. His mission is to stop the unknown traitor at any cost, including his life.