The master storyteller ( San Francisco Chronicle ) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy.
In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby.
Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent.
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