The Spy

Copyright

Translation copyright © 2016 by Zoë Perry

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Brazil as A Espiã by Editora Paralela, a division of Editora Schwarcz S.A., São Paulo, in 2016. Copyright © 2016 by Paulo Coelho. This edition published by arrangement with Sant Jordi Asociados Agencia Literaria SLU, Barcelona, Spain.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 201695146

ISBN 9781524732066 (hardcover) ISBN 9781524732073 (ebook)

ISBN 9781524711085 (open market)

Ebook ISBN 9781524732073

This is a work of fiction although the general outline of Mata Hari’s life is based on real events, and the author has attempted to reconstruct her life based on historical information. However, where Mata Hari or other real-life figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Cover design by Stephanie Ross

Photographs of Mata Hari herein are courtesy of the Collection Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Image of the letter on this page is courtesy of the National Archives, United Kingdom.

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