The Spy Who Inspired the First Bond Girl | Rescue from execution | 3
The Spy Who
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Frozen out by the Special Operations Executive, Polish countess turned British spy Krystyna Skarbek is now stuck in the Middle East. But she’s determined to get back into the fight against the Nazis, no matter the personal cost.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of The Spy Who, ad-free right now. |
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| 0:09.6 | Late 1941, northern Syria. |
| 0:13.6 | Christina Scarbeck shoots a quizzical look at Anjay Koverski as he pulls his Opal Olympia to the side of the road. |
| 0:20.5 | Is something wrong? Why are we stopping? Skarbeck and Kovirsky are he pulls his Opal Olympia to the side of the road. Is something wrong? Why are we stopping? |
| 0:22.7 | Scarbeck and Kovirsky are in Syria for their first spy mission in months. |
| 0:27.4 | Syria is now under allied control, but there are fears Turkey might invade. |
| 0:32.7 | So Britain's special operations executives sent them here to identify how to sabotage bridges over the Euphrates River, should that invasion happen. |
| 0:41.3 | But there are no bridges in sight here. |
| 0:44.3 | I just thought we could admire the view. |
| 0:46.3 | Scarbeck knows something's up, but doesn't complain. |
| 0:50.3 | She admires the contrast between the stony desert plateau thereon with the river and its green fertile plains below them. |
| 0:58.4 | Koverski joins her moving with difficulty. |
| 1:01.4 | His amputated leg is constantly painful these days. |
| 1:05.1 | He leans on the car bonnet next to her and holds out a gold-embossed jeweller's box. |
| 1:11.0 | This is for you, something I've been saving up for. |
| 1:14.4 | It's beautiful. |
| 1:16.6 | Inside the box is a bracelet with heavy gold links in set with ivory. |
| 1:21.4 | Scarbeck kisses him. |
| 1:23.0 | I will treasure it always, just as I treasure you. |
| 1:27.5 | Kovreski smiles nervously. |
| 1:29.8 | Listen, I know you and Yerge are still married, but when you divorce, would you marry me? |
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