What sets this novel apart is the author’s perceptive portrayal of the camaraderie and friendship between the women – at the OSS, on the training ground, and amongst the Resistance fighters – as well as how quickly female bonds are made, and how they endure through terrible hardship. The sinister overseer, Officer Keppler, is reason alone to step very carefully. Joining Josette in Paris, the two women work for a German engineering firm, hiding in plain sight and procuring top-secret information for the SOE. Trained in England as an expert radio operator, and dropped behind enemy lines in December 1942, it is not until she is leaving that she is told that Josette, her best friend from her Paris days at Sciences Po, is a spy. She speaks French like a native, fluent German and, although 25, can pass for 17. Anna loves the work but yearns to be transferred overseas as a spy. Recently widowed Anna Cavanaugh takes a job with the OSS in Washington, DC, becoming assistant to General William Donovan, Roosevelt’s right-hand man.
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