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AUTHOR: Rosalie Knecht
SERIES: The Vera Kelly series, Book #1
PUBLISHER: Tin House Books
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2018
PAGES: 266
ISBN: 9781947793019
Who Is Vera Kelly?
The Vera Kelly series, Book #1
by Rosalie Knecht
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 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? introduces an original, wry and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
A main character (Vera) identifies as bisexual.
TROPES
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