When her husband, a fellow OSS officer, becomes frustratingly unhelpful in tracking their safety, Niki eventually takes comfort in the arms of her colleague, Major William Dewart. Yet the risk is worth it, for Niki has an ulterior motive riding on the success of her campaigns, for her family may still be in occupied Czechoslovakia. Roman prostitutes and German POWs are conscripted in schemes colorfully named Sauerkraut and Operation Cornflakes, putting Niki and her cohorts in danger of court-martial under the Geneva Convention.
Far from being as benign and uplifting as it sounds, the MO squad was tasked with "black propaganda," what we would now deem disinformation, to undermine the resolve of Nazi troops.
But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.Īs the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. 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.ĭespite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others-now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau-find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. “A gripping, fascinating read.” -Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphanġ944, Rome. Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.
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