Who Is Vera Kelly?
β Scribed by Rosalie Knecht
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Edition
- First US edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1947793020
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"The twisty, literary, woman-driven spy novel you've always wanted to read. Dazzling." --Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits With Gun
A Most Anticipated Book of 2018 at The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bustle, Autostraddle, and more.
New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA.
Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams.
When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Ned Kelly sits in a grimy cell at Old Melbourne Gaol on the night before his execution. His brother and fellow gang member Dan, who Ned believes died at the siege of Glenrowan, visits disguised as a priest. He's seeking Ned's blessing and forgiveness before heading north to start a new life in Queen