** TO BE READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK FROM 30 JAN 2023 **''As much le Carr-s it is Hidden Figures.'' AMARYLLIS FOX, author of Life Undercover ''A sweeping epic of a book [which] rescues five remarkable women from obscurity and finally gives them their rightful place in world history ... A book you won''t regret reading. Five women you won''t forget.'' KATE MOORE, author of The Radium Girls''As entertaining as it is instructive.'' GENERAL STANLEY MCCRYSTALThe never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA - women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace). In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organisation now known as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the ''wise gals'' by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligen
