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July 1955. Eighteen-year-old Shelby Blaine and her father, an Air Force intelligence officer, have just been wrenched away from their old life in West Germany to New York's Griffiss Air Force Base, where he has been summoned to lead the interrogation of an escaped Russian pilot. Still in shock from…

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1 author picked I'll Tell You No Lies as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There are no spare words here, and I dare you just to read one page.

I enjoyed McCrina’s earlier books, but with each new book she writes, her craft keeps on getting tighter.

She’s always written about those bits of WWII and the Cold War that no one seems to know about. She’s always done it with authority. But with this book, my gosh. So breathless. My eyes were glued to the page, and I was powerless to do anything other than read it. I didn’t even get up to pee.

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