From Publishers Weekly
In this dramatic sequel to The Spy Wore Red , a memoir of her experiences as an OSS agent, the author reveals more about her life during WW II and later, when, married to a Spanish nobleman, she resumed her career as a spy. Hunting a KGB mole in NATO in 1966, she recruited the Duchess of Windsor who, she shows, greatly enjoyed her minor role in espionage. The duchess is only one player in a dazzling cast with whom the American-born Condesa socializes here, a cast that includes the likes of French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou, Jacqueline Kennedy, the Rothschilds, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. In an exciting denouement she exposes the mole, wrapping up a heretofore unresolved case. Photos not seen by PW . Literary Guild dual main selection; Doubleday Book Club alternate.
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From School Library Journal
YA-- A book that seems as if it came from the pen of one of our popular writers of escapist fiction, this is the autobiography of a beautiful young woman from a small town in New York who was recruited by the OSS during World War II and sent to Spain as a spy. Her successful and dangerous career came to an end in 1947 when she married into one of Spain's oldest and most prestigious families and became a countess. Most of this part of her story was told in The Spy Wore Red (Random, 1987). After almost 20 years as one of Spain's most glamorous socialities, Aline Romanones is again recruited by the CIA to help uncover a mole in NATO headquarters in Paris. During the course of her exploits, she crosses paths with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, the embalmed body of Eva Peron, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The glimpses into the lives of the super-rich and the super-famous alone make the book interesting; the addition of the drama and real danger makes it irresistible. This is the perfect book to hand to girls who love Danielle Steel, Judith Krantz, etc., and who think they don't like nonfiction.
- Patricia Lilly, Holub Middle School, Alief, TX
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- Patricia Lilly, Holub Middle School, Alief, TX
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