Prescott, Lara,

The secrets we kept / Lara Prescott. - First Vintage Books edition. - xi, 352 pages ; 21 cm

Prologue : The typists -- East: 1949-1950 : The muse -- West: Fall 1956 : The applicant -- The typists -- The swallow -- East: 1950-1955 : The rehabilitated woman -- The cloud dweller -- The emissary -- West: February-Fall 1957 : The carrier -- The typists -- East: 1955-1956 : The agent -- The emissary -- West: Fall 1957-August 1958 : The carrier -- The swallow -- The company man -- The swallow -- The carrier -- The typists -- The carrier -- East: May 1958 : The mother -- West: August-September 1958 : The typists -- The nun -- East: September-October 1958 : The prizewinner -- West: October-December 1958 : The informant -- East: October-December 1958 : The emissary -- West: December 1958 : The defector -- East: January 1959 : The postmistress -- West: Summer 1959 : The student -- East : 1960-1961 : The almost widow -- Epilogue : The typists.

At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, but under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents. Their story is intertwined with that of the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara.

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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doktor Zhivago --Fiction.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 --Fiction.
Ivinskai︠a︡, Olʹga, 1912-1995 --Fiction.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.
Ivinskai︠a︡, Olʹga, 1912-1995.


United States. Central Intelligence Agency --Officials and employees--Fiction.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Doktor Zhivago (Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich)


Cold War--Fiction.
Women spies--Fiction.
Secretaries--Fiction.
Smuggling--Fiction.
Prohibited books--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Political.
FICTION / Historical / General.
Women spies.
Smuggling.
Secretaries.
Prohibited books.
Employees.
Women spies--Fiction.
Cold war--Fiction.
Man-woman relationship--Fiction.
Publishers and publishing--Fiction.


Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Fiction.


Thrillers (Fiction)
Biographical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Novels.
Spy fiction.
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
Spy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.

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