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Book Review of The Company of Strangers

The Company of Strangers
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This is an espionage thriller taking place in 1944. Andrea Aspinall is a mathematician and spy who disappears into the streets of Lisbon under a new identity. Karl Voss arrives in Lisbon and begins subversive work against the Nazis. The two try to find love in a world of secrets. The book progresses from the war years in Lisbon and London up through the Cold War.