Book Synopsis:
The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing.
Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and one plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission.
It is here that she meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill. As they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love. All the while, they are being hunted by the cunning German secret police sergeant, Hugo Bleicher, who finally succeeds in capturing them.
They are sent to Paris’s Fresnes prison, and on to concentration camps in Germany, where they are starved, beaten, and tortured. But in the face of despair, they never give up hope, their love for each other, or the whereabouts of their colleagues.
This is portrait of true courage, patriotism and love amidst unimaginable horrors and degradation.
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My Review:
This was an extraordinary story of a truly remarkable woman. I hadn’t heard of Odette before so I found it fascinating learning more about her. She did some amazing, brave things during the war which were mind blowing to read about. How someone could put themselves in constant danger knowing that if they were captured they could be tortured or killed is unbelievable, especially as she was a mother to young children at the time.
The author has obviously done a lot of research into this book and I found it fascinating learning more about Odette and the work that spies in general did during the war. The author has included lots of photos and it was great to be able to put faces to some of the characters as it let me picture the story more clearly in my mind. Although this book is classed as non fiction it reads a bit like a thriller and I found it very hard to out the book down because of this. I’d recommend this book to anyone who loves historical fiction as I think they’d enjoy it.
Huge thanks to Melanie from Mirror Books for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book via Netgalley.
About The Author:
Larry Loftis is the international bestselling author of INTO THE LION’S MOUTH:The True Story of Dusko Popov: WWII Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond, which has been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, Serbian, Chinese, and Czech. His next book, CODE NAME LISE:The True Story of the Spy Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Woman, will be published Jan. 15, 2019 by Gallery/Simon & Schuster. Larry is also an attorney and prior to becoming a full-time writer, he published legal articles in the University of Florida Law Review, Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Florida Bar Journal, National Law Journal, and Florida Banking. He received his BA and JD from the University of Florida, where he served on the Law Review as the senior executive editor and senior articles editor. He also served at the law school as a teaching fellow for Writing/Appellate Advocacy.
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