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1 online resource (xvii, 361 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rda |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Dramatis Personae -- Preface -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Dying to Fight -- Chapter 2: The Farm -- Chapter 3: Close Encounters -- Chapter 4: The Clerk -- Chapter 5: Man of Swords -- Chapter 6: Snatch-22 -- Chapter 7: Death by Murder -- Chapter 8: Putting on the Ritz -- Chapter 9: Glorious Gloria -- Chapter 10: Visitors -- Chapter 11: The Body -- Chapter 12: Resurrection -- Chapter 13: The Prisoner -- Chapter 14: The Bohemian -- Chapter 15: The Lady Vanishes -- Chapter 16: The Count -- Chapter 17: Butch -- Chapter 18: Pay Dirt |
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Chapter 19: Intelligence Goes to Ground -- Chapter 20: Paris -- Chapter 21: La Tienta -- Chapter 22: The Bookkeeper -- Chapter 23: Cortando la Coleta -- Chapter 24: Countess Quintanilla -- Chapter 25: Living the Dream -- Chapter 26: Twin Souls -- Epilogue: The Rest of the Story -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright |
| Summary |
"When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live 'a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious' (Time). As the US enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans, any of whom could be an enemy agent." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-347) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Aline, Countess of Romanones, 1923-2017.
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Spies -- United States -- Biography.
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Spies -- Spain -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Spain.
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Biographies.
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True crime stories.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Loftis, Larry. Princess spy New York : Atria Books, 2021 9781982143862 (NjBwBT)bl2020074138 (OCoLC)1162989040 |
| ISBN |
9781982143886 |
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1982143886 |
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