![]() ![]() I was impressed with the level of research that she did for the novel. This is my first book by this author, Ariel Lawhon. While covering news stories about increasing violence against Jews, she developed a deep-seated hatred for the Nazis. Originally from Australia, she left home when she was 16 and eventually landed in Paris, working for the Hearst newspaper, where she was never given a byline because she was female. Did I mention brave? She had that in spades. She was fiery, intelligent, spirited, and had a right big vocabulary of curse words, which she employed liberally. During a large part of this novel, she is known as Madame Andrée, in charge of coordinating communications and vital drops of military paraphernalia including weapons from London, and assuming command of an army of French guerrilla soldiers as part of the French Resistance during WW11. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake had several code names Hélène was the one she used as a spy. ![]()
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