02919cam a2200397 i 4500 623580450 TxAuBib 20221109120000.0 210806s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021038676 9781432893163 hardcover 1432893165 hardcover (OCoLC)1263249619 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda OCLCO DLC OCLCF IUK KAA UAP OCLCO GZD TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF IUK KAA UAP OCLCO GZD TxAuBib rda Thornton, Stephanie, 1980-, author. A Most Clever Girl : A Novel of An American Spy / By Stephanie Marie Thornton. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. 649 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "1963- Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding answers to the shocking mystery just uncovered about her family. What she doesn't expect is for Bentley to ensnare her in her own story of becoming a controversial World War II spy and Cold War informer... Recruited by the American Communist Party to spy on fascists at the outbreak of World War II, a young Bentley--code name Clever Girl--finds she has an unexpected gift for espionage. But after falling desperately in love with her handler, Jacob Golos, Elizabeth makes another unexpected discovery when she learns her lover is actually a Russian spy. Together, they will build the largest Soviet spy network in America and Elizabeth will become its uncrowned Red Spy Queen. However, once the war ends and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. become embroiled in the Cold War, it is Elizabeth who will dangerously clash with the NKVD, the brutal Soviet espionage agency. As Catherine listens to Elizabeth's harrowing tale, she empathizes with her, that is, until she uncovers startling revelations that link the two women's lives in shocking ways. Faced with the idea that her entire existence is based on a lie, Catherine realizes there can be many sides to the truth. And only Elizabeth Bentley can tell her what that truth really is"-- Provided by publisher. 20221109. Bentley, Elizabeth 1908-1963 Fiction. Communist Party of the United States of America Fiction. Communism United States Fiction. Women spies Fiction. Informers United States Fiction. Espionage, Soviet United States Fiction. Spy fiction. Historical fiction. Large type book. Fiction. TXKPL