The Private Life of Spies
Editorial LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
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- Publisher LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
- ISBN13 9781408718377
- ISBN10 1408718375
- Type BOOK
- Pages 224
- Published 2024
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureThe Private Life of Spies
Editorial LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943, much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late September that year.
He failed to send a single report back to Germany, and when the War came to an end in May 1945, he fell to his knees and wept with relief. From a highly reluctant German spy who is drawn to an East Anglian nunnery as his only means of escape, to the strange tale of one of the Cambridge spy ring's adventures with a Russian dwarf, these are Alexander McCall Smith's intriguing and typically inventive stories from the world of espionage. 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post'Delightfully old-fashioned and prudent of prose, McCall Smith unspools his tales' Daily Mail'[Adds] another treasure to McCall Smith's already glittering library' New York Journal of Books