The Unlikely Spy

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.

wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Remember, my Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward. Hold the lie up to a mirror, and the truth will be staring back at you in the glass.” “You have a plan.

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought.

Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.

the gentle melancholia that afflicts country people when the warm weather is ending.

After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.