In her most recent book, Mentiroz, seductora, soldado, espía: cuatro mujeres encubiertas en la Guerra Civil, Karen Abbott, tells the spellbinding true story of four women — a socialite, a farm girl, an abolitionist, and a widow — who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.  Gregory J. Wallance’s The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring.