Online
Third Thursday Book Group
Thursday, December 17, 2020 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 1 p.m. on Thursday, December 17th for a lively digital discussion. After registering, a Zoom link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
The Spy can be picked up at Richland Library Sandhills. For more information or to arrange to pick up a book for another location, call Richland Library at (803) 799-9084.
Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.
Her only crime was to be an independent woman.
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultimate price.