Matt Killeen

After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah--blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish--finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see every person like her dead. Then Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's a spy, and he needs Sarah to become one, too, to pull off a mission he can't attempt on his own- infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of top Nazi brass, befriend the daughter of a key scientist, and steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe. With years of training from her actress mother in the art of impersonation, Sarah thinks she's ready. But nothing prepares her for her cutthroat schoolmates, and soon she finds herself in a battle for survival unlike any she'd ever imagined.

Orphan, Monster, Spy

Selina 

Like the contents of a desk, a library tells you about the person. There are books passed on in the family. That’s who they were. Then there are the books they think they should have. That’s who they want to be. There are the books they want 

 to think they are. There are books they want to believe they like and then the books they really like, the dirty little secrets. If they’re old and dusty enough, that tells you all you need to know about that person’s mind. Everything was there if you only troubled to look.

“Never lie when you can tell the truth. Lies have to be worked out in advance or they will tie you up and eat you.”

“The machine gun didn’t end the last war, Helmut. It just made it more bloody.”

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