DANGEROUS BY DESIGN

True Stories of Women Who Lived Double Lives During the Most Dangerous Conflicts in History

The history books remember the wars. They forgot the women who fought them from the inside.

Dangerous By Design brings together twenty gripping true stories of the dancers and aristocrats, nurses and academics, housewives and socialites who became the most effective intelligence operatives of the twentieth century — the women who were recruited because their handlers thought they were invisible, and who proved that assumption was the greatest miscalculation of the secret war. Drawn from declassified intelligence files and postwar testimony, these stories are courageous, heartbreaking, and impossible to put down.

No supporting characters. No sideline roles. Just the untold truth about the women who ran the operations and changed the outcomes.

Inside you'll discover:

• How Virginia Hall built and rebuilt the French Resistance on one leg while the Gestapo called her the most dangerous Allied spy in France

• How Christine Granville talked three SOE agents out of Gestapo custody with nothing but nerve, a bluff, and a bribe

• How Noor Inayat Khan maintained the only wireless link between London and occupied Paris for three months alone — and kept her silence through ten months in chains

• How a grandmother in suburban London passed Britain's nuclear secrets to Moscow for thirty-five years without a single person suspecting a thing

Whether you're a lifelong history reader or just discovering the hidden role of women in the secret war, Dangerous By Design delivers the stories that history filed under someone else's name — and the women who were dangerous by design.

Book 5 of the Shadow Wars Series.

They were Dangerous By Design. History just forgot to mention it.