Lara Prescott

This novel is about 3 women: Sally and Irina, who are brilliant secretaries in the CIA's typing pool who become spies at the height of the Cold War, and whose ability to keep secrets catapults them into a world of danger, love and international espionage; and Olga, Boris Pasternak's mistress and muse, who was sent to the Gulag for refusing to divulge the plot of Dr. Zhivago to the Soviet agents, and who remained his mistress until he died. Based...