Set during the
Second World War, the main theme of the book is to bamboozle Hitler for the
D-Day invasion plans. Whether the Germans should approach Normandy or Calais
for the France invasion? So, basically it is a war-fiction. Peter Jordan, an American engineer, arrives in the
wartime Britain for the construction of an artificial harbour and also becomes
the important part of the top secrets related to D-Day.
Then there is
very intelligent man Alfred Vicary, a British academic, also a good friend of
Winston Churchill who introduces him to MI5 (the British Counterintelligence
Operations). As the war is on, Abwehr, a spy network of Germans, is very much
active in the Britain. Alfred Vicary devises a plan in which Abwehr will keep
receiving the information about the Britain’s moves but the information relayed
will not be truth. It will be rather fabricated, so as to deceive their spy
network. However, the real worry is to dig out the sleeping agents of Germany as
they are more detrimental than the normal ones. One such terrific agent is Catherine
Blake, a cold-hearted assassin, working under the direct orders of Hitler,
whose real name is Anna Stein, she works in a hospital as a volunteer during
the air raids.
As per the
plan, she romantically encounters Peter Jordan. Next, she ensnares Peter Jordan
by masking a melancholy love affair with him. However, her real intention is to
get the correct information about the construction of the harbor as that would
help the Germans to counterattack the Allies for D-Day. So, she wants to use
that American guy. After getting access to top secrets through her lover, she
realizes that so far Germans have been deceived by MI5 via Double Cross
Operation, headed by Vicary. But before she can leak the truth, she is
uncovered by Vicary and in the process of fleeing through the sea route she is killed
by the British Martial Ship arranged by Vicary. Peter and Catherine's love
affair ends with their deaths in the sea. Catherine dies while eluding but
Peter saves a blonde girl's life in a failed effort to save himself.
The novel runs
on many characters, each for a different situation. Throughout the story,
Daniel has terrifically maintained a sense of tension, though the end is bit
predictable. With Winston Churchill influencing the overall plot, The Unlikely
Spy by Daniel Silva is a fast page turner.
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