The Spy: A novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “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.”

  — Booklist

• [The Spy is a] masterful new novel.

  — Bookpage  

• 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.

  — Los Angeles Times

• A striking novel. . . . By the end, readers will believe they’ve read [Mata Hari’s] actual letters.

  — Publisher’s Weekly  

• Coelho has created a portrait of an anachronistic woman, who was destroyed by her times and became a legend.

  — Paste Magazine

• A novelist who writes in a universal language.

  — The New York Times

• Spiritualists and wanderlusts will eagerly devour . . . [Coelho’s] search for all things meaningful.

  — The Washington Post

• “[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.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “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