cover image Spy Went Dancing

Spy Went Dancing

Aline Countess of Romanones, Aline. Putnam Publishing Group, $19.95 (319pp) ISBN 978-0-399-13509-5

In this dramatic sequel to The Spy Wore Red , a memoir of her experiences as an OSS agent, the author reveals more about her life during WW II and later, when, married to a Spanish nobleman, she resumed her career as a spy. Hunting a KGB mole in NATO in 1966, she recruited the Duchess of Windsor who, she shows, greatly enjoyed her minor role in espionage. The duchess is only one player in a dazzling cast with whom the American-born Condesa socializes here, a cast that includes the likes of French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou, Jacqueline Kennedy, the Rothschilds, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. In an exciting denouement she exposes the mole, wrapping up a heretofore unresolved case. Photos not seen by PW . Literary Guild dual main selection; Doubleday Book Club alternate. (Feb.)