Cover of The Spy Wore Silk

The Spy Wore Silk

The Spy series

For glamor, adventure and intrigue, this is as good as it gets, wrote Cosmopolitan of The Spy Went Dancing, Aline's bestselling successor to her memoir of World War II OSS adventures, The Spy Wore Red. An American beauty, Spanish socialite, devoted wife and mother, and spy, Aline lived a life of glamor and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played in Notorious.—Time magazine. Now, in her third book, Aline unveils a true story of royalty and murder on a mission into Morocco with future CIA chief William Casey.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 316 pages

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