Ink: An overview

Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Kristie Macrakis combines a storyteller's sense of drama with a historian's respect for evidence in this page-turning history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. Macrakis' global history reveals the drama and importance of invisible ink. An appendix includes fun kitchen chemistry recipes for readers to try out at home.