Red Joan
by:
Jennie Rooney (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009A942QU
Publish date: March 7th 2013
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
At the age of eighty-five Joan Stanley is unmasked as a Cold War spy who passed secrets about the production of the atomic bomb to the Russians. During five days of interrogation by MI5 we share her memories of student life in Cambridge and learn how the intense relationships she formed during that ...
Book at Beachtime Eleanor Bron and Olivia Hallinan read Jennie Rooney's thriller.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036wblb/Book_at_Beachtime_Jennie_Rooney_Red_Joan_Episode_1/A novel loosely based on this woman's exploits:British spy Melita Norwood helped speed up USSR's atomic bomb programme. Me...