The Unlikely Spy

Bestselling author Daniel Silva's celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy , is "a roller-coaster World War II adventure that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth" ( The Orlando Sentinel ).

"In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agents imaginable--including a history professor named Alfred Vicary. Handpicked by Churchill himself, Vicary must stop an unknown spy from uncovering the Allied battle plans for D-Day. The Nazis, however, have also chosen their operative carefully. Posing as a war widow and hospital volunteer, Catherine Blake is under direct orders from Hitler to seal the German victory--no matter what the cost.We've provided a bit of coverage for Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Predators movie, a continuation/reboot/sequel reborquel of the franchise made famous originally by Arnold Schwarzeneggar and director John McTeirnan. The alien creature from predator has had a lengthy, and spotty, history on the big screen. The first movie remains a stellar action film, the second (featuring Danny Glover and Gary Busey) is a mixed bag at best. Then came Paul W.S. Anderson's awful Alien Vs. Predator, and eventually the odd, filled-with-no-names AVP: Requiem, which I enjoyed more than I expected to. I'm not saying it was good, but it was better than the prior two entries.

Regardless, Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios have been filming Predators, which actually takes place on the predator home planet. The official synopsis is:

"PREDATORS, a