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The Lipstick Bureau

By: Michelle Gable
Narrated by: Eleanor Caudill
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For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.


“A gripping, fascinating read.” —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan

1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers.

Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others—now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau—find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.

As the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. But one step out of line, one mistake, could mean life or death…

Don't miss Michelle Gable’s stylish new novel, The Beautiful People, set among Palm Beach's dazzling inner circle in the sunny 1960s.

More from Michelle Gable:

  • The Bookseller's Secret
  • The Beautiful People
©2022 Michelle Gable (P)2022 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
20th Century Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Biography Heartfelt War Italy Rome

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Unrealistic storyline and just so irritating that it's likely a woman to be so cocky and self absorbed in that era Two degrees and a lawyer from Czech Ruplic Ridiculous

Utter tosh

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