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Marc Koralnik |
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SPEAKEASY
The dramatic story of the double lives of Lena Stillman gangster's moll in the 1930s, elite code breaker for her country in the 1940s.
A former undetected outlaw who ran with Bill Bagley's notorious gang during the Depression, Lena Stillman is now an elite codebreaker in a position to know the nation's strategic secrets. Good under pressure, good at keeping her mouth shut, Lena never had trouble keeping her double lives compartmentalizedat least not until Bill is sentenced to hang, and her old Clockwork Gang becomes newsworthy.
Despite mounting fear that her secrets might be revealed, Lena excels at work and her skills attract new, unwanted attention. She is assigned to root out a spy at the Esquimalt base, and even her friends become suspects.
Intricate and entertaining, Speakeasy is a riveting West Coast caper, but like enemy submarines patrolling offshore, deeper issues lurk below. With the violence of war encroaching on Canada's shores, Lena must grapple with her past and use all of her skills, linguistic and otherwise. She discovers that loyalty is simply a form of love. Who knows what causes itor what revelations could make it disappear?
ALISA SMITH is the bestselling co-author of The 100-Mile Diet (Random House) and a freelance writer based in Vancouver, BC. She has won two National Magazine Awards and three honorable mentions. The 100-Mile Diet won a BC Book Prize, a Canadian Culinary Book Award, and a Cordon d'Or Award of Literary Merit in the US. Chapters/Indigo named it a Best Book of the Decade. She was co-host of the television show The 100-Mile Challenge, which aired in more than 30 countries.
Despite mounting fear that her secrets might be revealed, Lena excels at work and her skills attract new, unwanted attention. She is assigned to root out a spy at the Esquimalt base, and even her friends become suspects.
Intricate and entertaining, Speakeasy is a riveting West Coast caper, but like enemy submarines patrolling offshore, deeper issues lurk below. With the violence of war encroaching on Canada's shores, Lena must grapple with her past and use all of her skills, linguistic and otherwise. She discovers that loyalty is simply a form of love. Who knows what causes itor what revelations could make it disappear?
ALISA SMITH is the bestselling co-author of The 100-Mile Diet (Random House) and a freelance writer based in Vancouver, BC. She has won two National Magazine Awards and three honorable mentions. The 100-Mile Diet won a BC Book Prize, a Canadian Culinary Book Award, and a Cordon d'Or Award of Literary Merit in the US. Chapters/Indigo named it a Best Book of the Decade. She was co-host of the television show The 100-Mile Challenge, which aired in more than 30 countries.
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