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Publication: The New Yorker
Publication Date: 13-NOV-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Restless, by William Boyd (Bloomsbury; $24.95). Boyd's ninth novel, an absorbing historical thriller, is loosely based on the history of a covert branch of British intelligence created to coax America into the Second World War. The story unfolds on parallel tracks as Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976. These installments give the narrative...

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