Have you ever felt that someone is watching you? You’re walking down an empty street and you hear soft footsteps behind you, but when you turn around no one is there. Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to be in a country where you’re the enemy and you have to sleep with a gun underneath your pillow? Aline Romanones did. She tells the story of how she made it as a secret agent and survived.

In The Spy Wore Red, Aline gives her own personal account of how she served our country in World War II. She was an aspiring model from New York that wanted to serve her country. She re-tells her account of very courageous woman spy.

One dinner, one night, one man would recruit a woman that saved thousand of American soldiers lives. “I love adventure. I like taking risks. All the men I know are eager to get over there [Europe]. Why should it seem strange that a woman wants to also?” (11) Aline was as brave if not braver than any man that I know. Two weeks later, after she met this mysterious man from dinner she was invited to farm. This farm was where the Un

There was one major problem. There was a mole. As the story progresses Top Hat introduces her to many aristocrat people. She was also courted by a famous bullfighter. She worked her way through the social chain of people until she found out enough information about certain Germans that were there. Eventually she rented her own apartment and housed other spies that were in trouble. Then one frightful night while she was away delivering top-secret microfilm a person broke into her bedroom and killed a woman whom she was harboring. Someone was on to her and the Allies were about to initiate the first phase of Operation Anvil. The first part of Operation Anvil was a success. As it turns out, Operation Anvil is what is now known as D-Day. Now more then ever they needed to find out who the mole was. She couldn’t trust anybody. People were being murdered left and right and still no one knew who the mole was. Now she alone has to deliver the location of the next invasion to a spy that is going to parachute into France and tell the armies were to go. Once again, Pierre comes back into the picture. He’s the spy whom she meets up with and now she has to let him go once again. Now this

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