Biographies - you can't make this stuff up. It's real life, Baby. Even the main character didn't know what to expect before you turned the page!
Betty Pack was a rebel for all time, let alone the 1930s and 40s. She was impetuous and deliberate, devoted and fickle, passionate and cold-hearted in one short lifetime.
She married on a whim, had children and abortions with the same cavalier unattachment, leaving her husband and offspring in the care of others while she pursued her real passion: espionage facilitated by fornication.
Every chapter of this tension-filled biography makes me cringe at the lack of scruples used to sabotage a war enemy. WWII was won as much in the bedroom as in the war room, apparently.
Military men, more than willing to violate their marital fidelity and patriotic integrity, succumbed early and often to a socialite who worked her body to obtain pillow talk that fed British and American intelligence needs as the war with Germany was ramping up.
Mrs. Pack was never more alive than when she was risking her life by seducing any and every randy male who had a tale to tell or access to a nugget of information needed at any given moment of her mission.
This true story makes me wonder how many other women, in how many other wars, willingly and enthusiastically offered up their sexual skills for the "greater good", and how many potential war "heroes" were compromised because they couldn't deny their base natures.
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