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"American Spy"
by Lauren Wilkinson
I love a good spy novel, don’t you? Spymaster John LeCarre believes we’re drawn to the intrigue because “most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer, and perhaps with our marriage.”
Here are three audacious and adventurous spies you should be acquainted with.
The first is Lauren Wilkinson’s Marie Mitchell. An FBI agent who is tasked to the CIA as a “honey trap” for the new leader of Burkino Faso. Mitchell becomes increasingly wise to the CIA’s motives and increasingly conflicted about her mission. The novel is called “American Spy.”
My second fictional spy is Liz Carlyle, the British agent created by Stella Rimington, a former director general of Britain’s MI 5.
Liz is solitary, quietly feminist and cynical — as all good spies are. She’s wise to the ways of domestic politics and international espionage. Plunge into the series with “Moscow Sleepers.”
And finally, don’t miss Charlotte Gray, the spy that author Sebastian Faulks created from the real-life WWII resistance work of agents like Pearl Witherington and Odette Sansom.
When you've read “Charlotte Gray" check out Cate Blanchette as Charlotte in the 2001 film.
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