An Imperfect Spy
eBook - 2011
"FASCINATING . . . The dialogue is, as always, elegant and polished."—Los Angeles TimesWhile guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons swinging in its perfectly appointed closets, including the fate of Schuyler's only tenured female professor and a faculty wife who has killed her husband. As if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself—a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny. Although she has only a few mo...nths on campus, Kate refuses to let Schuyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity—or her obsession with the truth. . . ."Cross manages to keep this book as lighthearted and witty as any of the Kate...
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Random House Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 2 GB |
ISBN | 9780307802156 |
Release Date | 7/27/2011 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B005ACDXZM |
Release Date | 7/27/2011 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780307802156 |
Release Date | 7/27/2011 |