Cast No Shadow

The legend of Betty Pack is simple enough.

She was a beautiful American spy recruited first by the British Secret lntelligence Service in 1938 and later by the American OSS.

Her method of obtaining information was singular: seduction.

In Cast No Shadow Mary Lovell, author of Straight On Till Morning, the internationally acclaimed and best-selling biography of Beryl Markham, gives us for the first time the complete story behind the legend of this modern-day Mata Hari, a story more astounding than the legend.Betty Pack' s milieu was the aristocratic world of international diplomatic society The wife of a career British diplomat-the marriage for both partners had quickly become an arrangement of convenience, not passion - Betty would be witness to and participant in many of the most intense historic moments of the twentieth century: in civil war- torn Madrid, besieged Warsaw occupied Paris, wartime Washington.

In each locale, Betty' s entrée into diplomatic circles and her own penchant for seeking out men at the center of conflict made her a spy whose love of adventure was matched only by her talent for uncovering the enemy' s secrets.