Keeping The Secret

Daniel Silva, the author of the best selling novel "The Unlikely Spy," will read from his book at Book Hampton in East Hampton on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

The setting is Europe in the winter of 1944. Hitler has ordered his spies to stop at nothing to find out where the Allies will launch their D-Day invasion.

Mixing fact and fiction, Mr. Silva poses the questions: How might the Nazi spy ring ferret out the secret of D-Day and how might British intelligence stop them - or, better yet, deceive them into believing false information?

Mr. Silva, a veteran newspaper and television journalist, is the executive producer of CNN's Washington-based public affairs programming, including "Crossfire." He is married to Jamie Gangel, an NBC news correspondent; they divide their time between Washington and Shelter Island.

Next week's visiting author at Book Hampton will be Katie Roiphe, who will read from her new book, "Last Night in Paradise."