The Lipstick Bureau, Michelle Gable
The Lipstick Bureau, Michelle Gable
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The Lipstick Bureau

Author: Michelle Gable

Narrator: Eleanor Caudill

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.

“A gripping, fascinating read.” —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan

1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers.

Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others—now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau—find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.

As the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. But one step out of line, one mistake, could mean life or death…

Don't miss Michelle Gable’s stylish new novel, The Beautiful People, set among Palm Beach's dazzling inner circle in the sunny 1960s.

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About Michelle Gable

MICHELLE GABLE is the New York Times bestselling author ofeight novels, including A Paris Apartment, The Bookseller’s Secret, TheBeautiful People, and Darling Beasts. A San Diegonative and graduate of the College of William & Mary, Michelle lives inCardiff-by-the-Sea, California, with her husband, nearly grown daughters, andtwo Jindos rescued from the dog meat trade. Find her on Instagram, Twitter, orPinterest, @mgablewriter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on December 27, 2022

Happy pub day to this enlightening read. Michelle Gable tells the story of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and predecessor to the CIA. Using dual timelines in 1989 and 1944, we find out the role our main character Niki played as a woman serving in Italy. Her assignment was to a unit that prod......more

Goodreads review by "Avonna on December 28, 2022

Check out all my reviews at: [URL not allowed] THE LIPSTICK BUREAU by Michelle Gable is a historical fiction story loosely based on a real female spy during WWII working for the fledgling OSS (Office of Strategic Services) later to become the CIA. I loved the premise and the extensive......more