03 October 2010
In the middle of the summer, partly on the beach by the lake, I read these two spy memoirs. I'd read them before. They are thrilling and simple. This woman was a spy for the United States, based in Spain during World War II. She was courted by a bullfighter and married a Count. She went to lots of fancy parties. During one mission, she thought she was being followed by German agents. Turned out they were the jealous bullfighter's henchmen. In the second book she has help from the Duchess of Windsor. She never seems startled by her own success and adventure and mostly sticks to reporting the facts. When she does touch on her emotions those emotions are perfectly sane and reasonable and restrained. Weird. But I imagine that made her a good spy.
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Books I met: the spy wore red and the spy went dancing, Countess Aline de Romanones
In the middle of the summer, partly on the beach by the lake, I read these two spy memoirs. I'd read them before. They are thrilling a...
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