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In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.
HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hari’s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultimate price.
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“Hillary Huber uses an indeterminate European accent to voice Mata Hari’s thoughts, which is fitting for the young Dutch woman who was dead set on making Paris her home. Huber’s performance highlights Mata Hari’s many layers, including her naïve trust in men and her passion to live life on her own terms. Paul Boehmer’s believable French accent, colored with sorrow and frustration, is appropriate for the accused woman’s lawyer, Edouard Clunet.”
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“Coelho uses Mata Hari’s story to illustrate how an individual’s fate can be caught up in the effort by the powers-that-be to distract the public from the horrific realities of their circumstances.”
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[The Spy is a] masterful new novel.
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Coelho, whose books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, has taken the Mata Hara story and fashioned it into a short dynamo of a novel.
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A striking novel. . . . By the end, readers will believe they’ve read [Mata Hari’s] actual letters.
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Coelho has created a portrait of an anachronistic woman, who was destroyed by her times and became a legend.
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A novelist who writes in a universal language.
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Spiritualists and wanderlusts will eagerly devour . . . [Coelho’s] search for all things meaningful.
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“[In] Coehlo’s striking novel…he displays an ability to inhabit her voice. Through the letters, he illustrates the difficulties of being an independent woman in that time and place. By the end, readers will believe they’ve read Zelle’s actual letters.”
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“Coelho’s novel about Mata Hari…hews closely to the facts. A prologue reveals what we already know from history…What follows is a grim comedy of errors…The absurdity of the charges against Mata Hari comes through clearly.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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About Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho is a New York Times bestselling author. His books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 68 languages and published in 150 countries. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious international awards and was inducted at the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2002. In 2007 he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary-General.
About the Narrators
Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent, in 2025 was named a Golden Voice, AudioFile magazine’s lifetime achievement honor for audiobook narrators. She has won Voice Arts Awards and more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. She has with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt. She has a BA degree in English Literature.
Paul Boehmer is an American actor best known for his numerous appearances in the Star Trek universe, in addition to Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He is a 1992 Masters of Fine Arts graduate of the Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Delaware. As a narrator, Paul has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award.
Paul Boehmer is an American actor best known for his numerous appearances in the Star Trek universe, in addition to Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He is a 1992 Masters of Fine Arts graduate of the Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Delaware. As a narrator, Paul has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award.