Model, spy, countess. Here is one woman's incredible--but true--adventures as an undercover agent in World War II. As a deep-cover OSS agent code-named "Tiger", this remarkable woman probed the depths of the Nazi underground--risking her life--in a glittering world of high intrigue.
It is 1966. An ace operative, code named Tiger, is called out of semiretirement by the CIA for a crucial mission. Tiger is Aline, countess of Romanones, an internationally prominent socialite who can charm people into saying more than they intend to. The successor to Aline's The Spy Wore Red.
"For glamor, adventure and intrigue, this is as good as it gets", wrote Cosmopolitan of The Spy Went Dancing, Aline's bestselling successor to her memoir of World War II OSS adventures, The Spy Wore Red. An American beauty, Spanish socialite, devoted wife and mother, and spy, Aline "lived a life of glamor and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played ...
After three thrilling memoirs, The Spy Went Dancing, The Spy Wore Red, and The Spy Wore Silk, Aline Romanones--Spanish countess, devoted mother, and glamorous spy--gives us a novel of international intrigue and terror so rich in detail that only someone who had lived through such dangers could have imagined it.
The American model-turned-spy draws on her own experience as an undercover agent to create a novel of adventure and suspense. In Madrid, a former OSS agent's chance encounter with a charming businessman turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse when she realizes her new friend is an infamous terrorist.
An exciting memoir that reads like a first-rate spy novel: Aline Griffith, later to become Countess of Romanones, was recruited off the streets of Brooklyn for World War II espionage work in Spain, and this is her own first-hand story.
An autobiography by Aline Griffith who recounts her work as an undercover agent for the United States in wartime Madrid. She begins her story in 1943 when at the age of 20 and working as a model, she was recruited into the American secret service, trained as a spy and sent to work as an agent in Madrid to uncover Himmler's spy. The author recounts ...
In 1966, with World War II over for more than 20 years, a CIA operative, code-named "Tiger", is called out of semi-retirement to uncover a highly-placed NATO mole who is threatening US security. "Tiger" is Aline, Countess of Romanones, an internationally prominent socialite who can mix comfortably in the right European circles and charm people ...
In 1966 the CIA calls ace operative Alice, Countess of Romanones--code name "Tiger"--out of retirement to ferret out a highly placed NATO mole. To succeed, she recruits a secret partner: Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
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