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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude en...

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Main Author: McMorris, Kristina (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Great Britain > Fiction.
Women intelligence officers > Fiction.
Inventors > Fiction.
Psychic trauma > Fiction.
Escape artists > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Spy fiction.
War fiction.
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Summary:"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee being called upon by British Intelligence. Tasked with creating escape tools to thwart the Germans, MI9 seeks those with specialized skills for a war nearing its breaking point. Fenna reluctantly joins an unconventional group of inventors-but delving deeper into the fray means a confrontation with her past and stakes more treacherous than she ever imagined"--
Physical Description:488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 486).
ISBN:9781728249766
1728249767
9781728249797
1728249791
Author Notes:Kristina McMorris is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author published by Kensington Books, Penguin Random House, and HarperCollins. She is the author of the widely praised Letters from Home, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, and The Pieces We Keep and The Edge of Lost.

Kristina's novels have garnered more than twenty national literary awards, as well as a nomination for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, RWA's RITA® Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. In addition, her novellas have appeared in the anthologies A Winter Wonderland and Grand Central.

Prior to her writing career, Kristina was a PR director and host of weekly TV shows, beginning with an Emmy® Award-winning program at age nine. She's been named one of Portland's "40 Under 40" by The Business Journal.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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