TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knecht,Rosalie
TI  - Who is Vera Kelly?
SN  - 9781947793019
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Portland, Oregon
PB  - Tin House Books
KW  - United States
KW  - Central Intelligence Agency
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Young women
KW  - Buenos Aires (Argentina)
KW  - Argentina
KW  - History
KW  - Coup d'état, 1966
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - Spy fiction
N2  - "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"--
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