The Lipstick Bureau A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy

Michelle Gable

eBook - 2022

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost."A gripping, fascinating read." —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers.Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others—now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau—f...ind success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind... more