I started reading The Secret War of Julia Child but ended up putting it down when I realized I'd rather be reading a spy novel with a woman main character who wasn't Julia Child, and without the focus on Julia's love life that tends to take center stage in a fictionalized account of a chain of events where the result was Julia meeting her husband. And where you can't really have Julia Child kill Hitler or liberate Auschwitz or anything.
So… what is the woman-centered spy novel I'm looking for?
Doesn't have to be set during WW2, though that would be cool.
Please do not recommend anything in the romance genre.
by bmadisonthrowaway
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I really enjoyed Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht. A woman living in NYC in the 1960s is recruited by the CIA because of her radio skills, and is sent to Argentina to wiretap a politician.
I suppose The Nightengale, by Kristin Hannah, might fit your request. Not a great book, but a helluva story. I read it cover to cover on an intercontinental flight.
Restless by William Boyd is definitely this!
The Snare of the Hunter by Helen MacInnes
Shining Through by Susan Isaacs