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Who is Vera Kelly?
2018
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After being recruited by the CIA to work undercover in Argentina, radio host Vera Kelly becomes close to a group of student activists, but, after a betrayal, she is left stranded and must take extreme measures to escape. - (Baker & Taylor)

Navigating the underground gay scene of 1962 Greenwich Village, quick-witted Vera Kelly is recruited for the CIA and infiltrates a group of student activists in Buenos Aires before a coup leaves her stranded in hostile territory. Original. - (Baker & Taylor)

"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 perceptivecoming-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"-- - (Baker & Taylor)

"Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." —The New York Times Book Review"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." —Entertainment Weekly - (WW Norton)

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? introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century. - (WW Norton)

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Who is Vera Kelly? A 25-year-old CIA spy living in Buenos Aires, that's who. It's 1966, and, at first, there is nothing terribly exciting about her covert-ops work—until Argentina is riven by a coup, and she finds herself in terrible danger and desperate to get out of the country. In the meantime, the story has moved backward in time to 1957, when Vera is a teenager who has been declared incorrigible by the court and remanded to the Maryland Youth Center. After time served, she finishes high school and moves to New York. It is there that she is recruited to work for the CIA. The story continues to move back and forth in time, filling in Vera's backstory and her present life in Buenos Aires, where she masquerades as a college student, meeting two classmates who she thinks might be KGB agents. But are they? It's a tangled, atmospheric story that gradually builds suspense to a satisfyingly surprising denouement. Spy-fiction fans will want to take note. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews.

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