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The Impossible Gal: Her First Undercover Assignment
The Adventurous Life of a Transgender Cold War Spy!
Algeria, northern Africa, 1980s. Exotic, precarious, and the perfect setting for this prequel to The Second Oldest Profession.
Here is the story of Charles/Moira/Svetlana, the “impossible gal,” as she navigates her first field assignment at the Leningrad Taproom of Algiers, a front for her U.S. spy agencies’ surveillance of the Soviet Red Fleet’s Mediterranean Squadron. She is the Grand Hostess, as well as having a problematic cover identity as a reserve Soviet Air Force officer. Her new life is chess games with a handsome admiral, working with charming colleagues, traveling to Switzerland and Italy, and of course, wearing fabulous Italian gowns and Berber disguises!
Welcome to the spy shadows, secrets, and lies stacked like sandbags…and always, danger!
Algeria, northern Africa, 1980s. Exotic, precarious, and the perfect setting for this prequel to The Second Oldest Profession.
Here is the story of Charles/Moira/Svetlana, the “impossible gal,” as she navigates her first field assignment at the Leningrad Taproom of Algiers, a front for her U.S. spy agencies’ surveillance of the Soviet Red Fleet’s Mediterranean Squadron. She is the Grand Hostess, as well as having a problematic cover identity as a reserve Soviet Air Force officer. Her new life is chess games with a handsome admiral, working with charming colleagues, traveling to Switzerland and Italy, and of course, wearing fabulous Italian gowns and Berber disguises!
Welcome to the spy shadows, secrets, and lies stacked like sandbags…and always, danger!
491 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2025
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