The Spy Wore Silk: Further Adventures of an Undercover Agent.
Aline, Countess of Romanoes.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group,
Date Published: 1991.
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10). 316 pages. The book is in NEAR FINE condition with light staining to front board bottom. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelf wear. NOT price-clipped. The book comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "America's most captivating secret agent tells the true story of a Cold War mission into Morocco with William Casey. 'For glamor, adventure and intrigue, this is as good as it gets,' wrote Cosmopolitan of The Spy Went Dancing, Aline Romanones' bestselling successor to her memoir of ass adventures during World War II, The Spy Wore Red. American beauty, Spanish socialite, devoted wife and mother, and spy, Aline, Countess of Romanones, wrote Time, 'lived a life of glamor and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious.' Now, in her third book, Aline unveils a true story of royalty and murder. It is 1971, and news reports of the near-assassination of Morocco's King Hassan II shock Aline. Just months before, she had received veiled warnings of such a plot, but few people had paid much attention. Now it is her job to make sure that the would-be assassins do not succeed in their second attempt. With the help of onetime ass colleague and future CIA chief William Casey, she searches for the conspirators, from the shadowy back streets of the Marrakech souks to the lavish palaces of Casablanca and Rabat, from exotic desert banquets that turn into terrorist targets to elaborate shooting parties masking treachery and death. With the days running out, she must somehow untangle the complex web of motives and deceptions perpetrated by traitors, Soviet agents, illicit lovers, and uncertain allies, in order to ensure the king's survival-and in- creasingly, her own. Written with great style and her supreme talent for both suspense and the exotic details of high society, The Spy Wore Silk is irresistible real-life intrigue."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0399136134
Book Id: 7307
Price: $21.50
