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02771aam a2200421 a 4500 001 159F9216B9A311E9BB44230E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20220519010419 008 190131s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 020 $a 153873222X 020 $a 9781538732229 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d NjBwBT $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Meacham, Leila, $d 1938- $e author. 245 10 $a Dragonfly : $b a Novel / $c Leila Meacham. 250 $a hardcover 260 $a New York : $b Grand Central Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a xi, 563 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "At the height of World War II, five American spies risk their lives for their country, and one of their own pays the ultimate price. In 1942, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter form the Office of Strategic Services, a counterintelligence branch of the U.S. government., asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. Handpicked by their OSS handler, the inscrutable 'man in brown,' this unusual group of men and women hail from very different backgrounds --a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and welathy businessman, a dirt=poor Midwestern fly-fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer. Each chooses to answer the call of duty, but for a secret rason of her or his own. They bond immediatly, in a group code-named Dragonfly, and take up their falase identities as they prepare to be dropped behind enemy lines in German-occupied Paris, embedded among the highest Nazi ranks. Isolated from one another except for a secret drop box, they live each harrowing day in close contact with the powerful Nazi elite who have paris under siege....Until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. Is everything as it seems, or is this on more elaborate act of spycraft?" --book jacket. 510 3 $a Bklst 05/01/2019. 510 3 $a PW 05/13/2019. 510 3 $a Kirkus 05/01/2019. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Paris $z Paris $v Fiction. 651 0 $a France $x History $y German occupation, 1940-1945 $v Fiction. 610 1 $a United States. $b Office of Strategic Services $x Officials and employees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Spy stories. 650 0 $a War stories. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 7 952 $l RLPB371 $d 20220624011608.0 952 $l MCPB423 $d 20220509113357.0 952 $l LHPD057 $d 20201022105426.0 $m FIC 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20191203011425.0 952 $l VBPC034 $d 20191011112523.0 952 $l UHPB911 $d 20190926165408.0 952 $l KIPB845 $d 20190808162117.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=159F9216B9A311E9BB44230E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search