Fans of Kate Quinn and Kristina McMorris will love this gripping historical novel based on the true story of the woman who used her codebreaking skills to bring down Prohibition gangsters and WWII Nazis, and who ultimately helped found the present-day NSA.
Grace Smith has never been one to conform to societyтАЩs expectations. She flees small-town Indiana to seek adventureтАФand finds more than she bargained for when sheтАЩs hired by an eccentric millionaire to learn codebreaking. Soon sheтАЩs using those skills to help head the governmentтАЩs fledgling cryptanalysis unit.
During Prohibition, Grace takes up the fight against rumrunnersтАФnot to mention Al Capone himself. And as the country careens from one Great War to another, itтАЩs Grace who must crack the secrets of foreign governments, catch spies, and derail saboteurs . . . before itтАЩs too late.
With wry wit and sheer grit, she forges her own path as a codebreaker, wife, mother. SheтАЩs spent a lifetime going up against powerful men and winning. But as war rages and the stakes grow impossibly high, Grace faces a truly impossible choice: her family or her country?
Fans of Kate Quinn and Kristina McMorris will love this gripping historical novel based on the true story of the woman who used her codebreaking skills to bring down Prohibition gangsters and WWII Nazis, and who ultimately helped found the present-day NSA.
Grace Smith has never been one to confo...