Who is Vera Kelly?

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Knecht, Rosalie	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Best New Spy 2018 submitted by spostjacobs on August 22, 2018, 3:32pm _Who is Vera Kelly?_ is an excellent read for a long summer afternoon. The lead character is nuanced, and the story is engrossing. At times, it seems as if this is actually two books---the story of how Vera left home to arrive in New York and the story of Vera's activities in Argentina; each could be a fascinating novel in its own right. I hope that Rosalie Knecht decides to return to Vera because this would be a fantastic series.