“A‎ Blonde Bond” — that’s what Time magazine called WWII secret agent Betty Pack in her obituary. She used the bedroom, the magazine wrote, as Bond “uses a Beretta.”

“The Last Goodnight,” Howard Blum’s nonfiction account of Pack’s life — a tale of clandestine missions, suspense and amorous adventures — will be published Tuesday by HarperCollins with a first printing of 100,000.

Pack was the spy who, according to her bosses, “changed the entire course of the war.”
Sony’s Columbia TriStar Pictures has bought the film rights for a hefty six-figure sum and Mark Gordon (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Steve Jobs” and the TV series “Ray Donovan”) will be producing.

Sony is already busily deciding who will star as Pack, and while many actresses are pursuing the role, the early studio favorite is Jennifer Lawrence.

The book’s title comes from a bit of wisdom the CIA passes on to its new agents: “The last person to whom you say good night is the most dangerous.” And Betty Pack, femme fatale, personified the risks of intimacy.

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