{"product_id":"9781947793019","title":"Who Is Vera Kelly? (Vera Kelly Series #1)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gripping, subtle, magnificently written.\" ―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature’s mystery canon―one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut.\" ―\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNew York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNext thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exhilarating page-turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, \u003ci\u003eWho Is Vera Kelly?\u003c\/i\u003e introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.","brand":"Zando","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370794717245,"sku":"9781947793019","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781947793019_p0.jpg?v=1771582439","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781947793019","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}