01448cam a2200289 4500 390018405 TxAuBib 20190827120000.0 181105s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018052229 9780525656159 0525656154 (OCoLC)1061867295 TxAuBib Prescott, Lara. The secrets we kept / Lara Prescott. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. xi, 349 pages ; 25 cm. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents. 20190827. Cold War Fiction. Women and the military fiction. USSR fiction. Spy fiction. Historical fiction.