“Mary? After all, what was she? Just another babe. True, I was disgusted with her for letting herself be used as bait. It was all right for her to use her femaleness as an agent; the Section had to have female operatives. There have always been female spies, and the young and pretty ones have always used the same tools.”

Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 10 (p. 61)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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