The Book Spy
Today's review will be about The Book Spy by Alan Hlad. This book is a standalone novel about world war 2 and how librarians had a impact on the war. Publication date is January 24, 2023. A little about the book; in 1942 Maria Alves wanted to serve her country and honor her mother who was a photojournalist who was killed while covering the Spanish Civil War. She is a microfilm expert at the New York Public Library and can speak six languages. Maria soon finds out that her coworker was chosen to be a part of the task force of librarians who are being trained in espionage and sent overseas to fight against fascism. So, wanting to help her country she pulls off her own mission to get accepted into the program and succeeds and is sent to the neutral city of Lisbon. While Maria is in Portugal, she acts as an American official collecting materials for the Library of Congress, often times visiting the bookstores and news dealers in Lisbon to find Axis publications. Mari...