NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of
her country during World War II in Danielle Steel's thrilling new novel. At eighteen Alexandra
Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress
her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks she is a stunning beauty who
seems destined for a privileged life. But fate a world war and her own quietly rebellious
personality lead her down a different path. By 1939 Europe is on fire and England is at war.
From her home in idyllic Hampshire Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First
Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the
service. Fluent in French and German she would make the perfect secret agent. Within a year
Alex is shocking her family in trousers and bright red lipstick. They must never know about the
work she does-no one can know not even the pilot she falls in love with. While her country and
those dearest to her pay the terrible price of war Alex learns the art of espionage leading
to life-and-death missions behind enemy lines and a long career as a spy in exotic places and
historic times. Spy follows Alex's extraordinary adventures in World War II and afterward in
India Pakistan Morocco Hong Kong Moscow and Washington D.C. when her husband Richard
enters the foreign service and both become witnesses to a rapidly changing world from post-war
to Cold War. She lives life on the edge with a secret she must always keep hidden.
