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A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game. A gripping World War Two thriller in the Spoils of War Collection from Graham Hurley.

1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant and abandoned by a man she thought she knew.

Annie passes the rest of the war in a haze, her only consolation her relationship with mysterious Republican fighter Carlos Ortega. Annie finds herself caught up in Ortega''s world, a web of intrigue, which leads to her recruitment into MI5.

On her first mission, Annie must pose as Ortega''s wife and head to Algeciras. Hitler''s Operation Felix his plan to control the Mediterranean and force Churchill to the negotiating table has been set into motion, and the ''couple'' must help prevent the Nazis from seizing G

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 7/4/2024
    ISBN13: 9781801108522, 978-1801108522
    ISBN10: 1801108528

    Fiction , Crime & Thriller

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    A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game. A gripping World War Two thriller in the Spoils of War Collection from Graham Hurley.

    1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant and abandoned by a man she thought she knew.

    Annie passes the rest of the war in a haze, her only consolation her relationship with mysterious Republican fighter Carlos Ortega. Annie finds herself caught up in Ortega''s world, a web of intrigue, which leads to her recruitment into MI5.

    On her first mission, Annie must pose as Ortega''s wife and head to Algeciras. Hitler''s Operation Felix his plan to control the Mediterranean and force Churchill to the negotiating table has been set into motion, and the ''couple'' must help prevent the Nazis from seizing G

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