Who is Vera Kelly? /
Knecht, Rosalie,
Who is Vera Kelly? / by Rosalie Knecht. - First U.S. edition. - 266 pages ; 22 cm
"New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself. An exhilarating page turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? is a novel that introduces an original, wry and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century"--
9781947793019 1947793012
2018002612
United States. Central Intelligence Agency --Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Fiction.
Argentina--History--Coup d'état, 1966--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Action and adventure fiction.
Spy fiction.
Who is Vera Kelly? / by Rosalie Knecht. - First U.S. edition. - 266 pages ; 22 cm
"New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself. An exhilarating page turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? is a novel that introduces an original, wry and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century"--
9781947793019 1947793012
2018002612
United States. Central Intelligence Agency --Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Fiction.
Argentina--History--Coup d'état, 1966--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Action and adventure fiction.
Spy fiction.