Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story)

Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story)

<p><strong>An NPR Best Book of the Year<br /><br /> "Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." ―<em>The New York Times Book Review</em><br /><br /> "A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature’s mystery canon―one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut." ―<em>Entertainment Weekly</em></strong></p><p>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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> An exhilarating page-turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, <em>Who Is Vera Kelly?</em> introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.</p>