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"In war-time," Winston Churchill wrote, "the fact is so precious that she must always be attended with a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence procedures, this meant locating the agent possible-a brief history teacher called Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill herself to reveal a very harmful, but unfamiliar, traitor. The Nazis, however, also have selected an agent: Catherine Blake, an attractive widow of a war hero, a clinic offer-and a Nazi criminal under direct orders from Hitler to discover the Allied plans for D-Day,