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Reviewed on June 15, 2014 | Fiction
In 1997, an 87-year-old British woman was revealed to have been an ace wartime spy for the KGB, most notably passing secrets needed to build an atomic bomb. From this juicy morsel of historical fact, Rooney invents Joan, an appealing, feisty girl working on her certificate in physics at Cambridge University. Smart and capable, she is recruited for a job at the Metals Research Facility. At university, she'd made friends with expat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
