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The New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling North american debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war". Betty Pack was wonderful, beautiful, and brilliant - and she knew it. As an agent for Britain's MI6 and then America's OSS during World War II, these characteristics proved imperative to her success. This is actually the remarkable story of the "Mata Hari from Minnesota" (Time) and the passions that ruled her tempestuous life - a life filled with dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions vital to the Allied victory. For decades much of Betty's career doing work for MI6 and the OSS continued to be classified. Through access to recently unclassified data files, Howard Blum discovers the reality about the attractive blond, codenamed "Cynthia", who seduced diplomats and military attachés across the globe in trade for ciphers and secrets; cracked embassy safes to take rules; and obtained the Polish notebooks that proven key to Alan Turing's success with Operation Ultra. Beneath Betty's cool, professional willpower, Blum unveils a troubled female conflicted by the very features that made her successful: her lack of deep emotional connections and her readiness to associated risk everything. The Previous Goodnight is a mesmerizing, provocative, and moving portrait of an exceptional heroine whose undaunted courage helped to save the world.
