Jennet Conant is a journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, and The New York Times. She is the author of the bestsellers The Irregulars, Tuxedo Park, and 109 East Palace. Conant lives in New York City and Sag Harbor with her husband and
"A Covert Affair is a skillfully told tale of espionage, combining
just enough background information with the right amount of
boisterous anecdote to make the reader feel simultaneously amused
and informed." --Salon.com
"A brilliantly researched and written account... a well-researched
and well-written account of this period in American
history....Conant, a terrific writer, conducted voluminous research
and crafted a fascinating story that reads as though she was
actually there." --The Seattle Times
"A well-researched, entertaining, and fast-paced read" --Library
Journal
"Conant has written a book full of fascinating material about
wartime and postwar America and how they intersected....Conant
doesn't disappoint in her picture of the whirlwind life of the OSS,
created very much in the image of its founder, the maverick William
J. Donovan. Her glimpses of how he overcame bureaucratic rivalries
and turf wars are as exciting as her picture of life in the field,
complete with dengue fever, cobras and scorpions." --Los Angeles
Times
"It is a wallop of a story, people engaging in the sorts of
international dangers that is the stuff of the movies... all
jungles and cities and intrigue and risk, with an exquisite
attention to detail that illuminates the OSS and its players."
--Portland Oregonian
"The value of Conant's anecdotal approach is... in its depiction of
ordinary relationships in extraordinary circumstances--of the way
friendships, feuds and romances develop in strange and secretive
settings." --The New York Times Book Review
"Thoroughly researched, fluid and compelling" --Kirkus
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