Women Air Force Service Pilot and undercover agent Pucci Lewis did not want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen, an imprisoned countess-counteragent suspected of triple-dealing and possibly putting our country's future at risk? Buchanan-Dineen was a real-life figure who led a German spy ring that operated in Detroit during WWII. Confronted by the FBI, she agreed to act as a counteragent helping to nail the other ring members. Jailed along with her cohorts - ''for her own protection'' - her rancor ran deep. Enter Pucci, landing in a B-24 bomber at the Willow Run aircraft factory. Late for a meeting, she takes a shortcut and stumbles upon a corpse. Agent Dante appears and reveals the dead man to be a German spy. A fellow Willow Run employee, Otto Renner, had been under surveillance and the FBI suspects a link between Renner and the imprisoned countess. Dante convinces Pucci to become a sister inmate to see what she can learn. Then she infiltrates a posh women's club where Buchanan-Dineen, billed as a ''charm consultant,'' once lectured. Could the club really be the center of a spy ring?
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Margit Liesche is the daughter of Hungarian refugees who arrived in the States in 1947 following eight years of missionary service in war-torn central China. Weaned on her parents' tales of isolation, escape, and the arduous journey to America aboard a military ship, intrigue is part of her DNA. So when she began plotting Lipstick and Lies, she couldn't help transmitting what she had absorbed into the story's events and characters. She lives and writes in Marin County, California. This is her debut novel.
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fabulous WWII espionage action adventure
7 April 2007
By Harriet Klausner
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In 1943 Women Air Forces Service Pilot (WASP) Pucci Lewis flies planes around the country as needed by the military. Pucci also works for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a counter spy insuring no axis rings operate within the United States.
She flies a B-24 to Willow Run aircraft factory near Detroit. There Pucci stumbles on the corpse of a worker when FBI Agent Dante finds her and informs her that the deceased was a Nazi spy. He further explains they are shadowing another factory employee Otto Renner suspected of giving the Germans aircraft information. Finally he drafts Pucci to go undercover as a caught jewel thief sent to prison. Her assignment behind bars is to determine whether exposed double agent Countess Grace Buchanan-Dineen is working for or crossing the Bureau as she is supposed to obtain evidence against her cohorts. The interrelated cases seem simple enough until Pucci ends up at the Cosmos Club, where she wonders if this spy and counter spy scenario consists of no Nazi sympathizers as the adversaries seem to belong to either the FBI or the OSS.
LIPSTICKS AND LIES is a fabulous WWII espionage action adventure that gives the audience a taste of the era from a rarely seen focus; that of a WASP. Besides a fabulous spy thriller and a vivid look at Detroit in 1943, the tale also provides a fascinating undercurrent as the two federal agencies compete rather than cooperate as it is heresy to collaborate; apparently based on the 9/11 Commission that rivalry had not changed as of September 2001 except the OSS morphed into the CIA. Margit Liesche provides a soaring historical thriller that takes off at the onset and never lands until the final quite interesting especially because of who's who confrontation.
Harriet Klausner
She flies a B-24 to Willow Run aircraft factory near Detroit. There Pucci stumbles on the corpse of a worker when FBI Agent Dante finds her and informs her that the deceased was a Nazi spy. He further explains they are shadowing another factory employee Otto Renner suspected of giving the Germans aircraft information. Finally he drafts Pucci to go undercover as a caught jewel thief sent to prison. Her assignment behind bars is to determine whether exposed double agent Countess Grace Buchanan-Dineen is working for or crossing the Bureau as she is supposed to obtain evidence against her cohorts. The interrelated cases seem simple enough until Pucci ends up at the Cosmos Club, where she wonders if this spy and counter spy scenario consists of no Nazi sympathizers as the adversaries seem to belong to either the FBI or the OSS.
LIPSTICKS AND LIES is a fabulous WWII espionage action adventure that gives the audience a taste of the era from a rarely seen focus; that of a WASP. Besides a fabulous spy thriller and a vivid look at Detroit in 1943, the tale also provides a fascinating undercurrent as the two federal agencies compete rather than cooperate as it is heresy to collaborate; apparently based on the 9/11 Commission that rivalry had not changed as of September 2001 except the OSS morphed into the CIA. Margit Liesche provides a soaring historical thriller that takes off at the onset and never lands until the final quite interesting especially because of who's who confrontation.
Harriet Klausner
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By Anders Tronsen
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I understand that this was ML's first novel, I have to believe she had some previous writing experience due to the 'color' she put into her characters.
The plot bogged down a bit in the middle (I agree with what PWeekly said), but it picks up the tempo in the last few chapters starting with a rather miraculous de-coding of a German secret message.
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I believe her use of the term 'Medical Examiner' was an anachronism (shouldn't this have been "Coroner" for those times?).
The plot bogged down a bit in the middle (I agree with what PWeekly said), but it picks up the tempo in the last few chapters starting with a rather miraculous de-coding of a German secret message.
1 criticism:
I believe her use of the term 'Medical Examiner' was an anachronism (shouldn't this have been "Coroner" for those times?).
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A Fascinating Revelation of Counter-Espionage in 1943
19 Jan 2011
By Harry V. Peters
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I found this book a well-written novel based upon an actual investigation and conviction of Countess Grace Dineen in Detroit, Michigan. It holds your attention from the beginning, as I did not put it down, until,I had finished reading it. I found the factual events substantially accurate, as I remember them from 1943. Literary privilege served only to make the novel a fascinating read. Its five-star rating is well deserved. During that period I was a federal investigator.
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