It is a wonderful adventure to follow, great period development and solid characters. Both tracks and trains were deliberately damaged. Eve was a very different character in WWI then how she is portrayed in 1947. The rail network was a particular focus of resistance activities, especially in the time leading up to D-Day. We learn of the heroics of the Alice Network of spies and the incredible work they performed. Both Charlie and Eve grow and change by their shared experiences. She is pregnant and an unwed mother, coping with her “little problem” is not easy, she has been thrown out of her very proper family. However, George Veux Bacon (KV 2/4 & 2/5) who was a German spy in the First World War, used his socks to conceal ‘invisible ink’ used for writing secret messages back to Germany.
and surviving War Department records say nothing about what spy network may have. Charlie needs help in more ways than one. It will demonstrate that World War I saw Americas invention of. Eve is a seasoned spy with knowledge to solve cryptic riddles and unsolved puzzles. They hook up together with different agendas and head for the French towns of Lille, Limoge and Grasse.Ĭharlie is a math whiz and is always solving for “X.” She loves her cousin Rose and wants desperately to find her. Eve might possess a clue to Rose’s whereabouts, but Eve is a raging, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed WWI broken-down espionage agent secluded in London. Undaunted by her artificial leg, she created a spy network. In 1947 a young girl, Charlie, is looking for her beloved cousin Rose, lost somewhere in France. Of the many women who served in the OSS, field agent Virginia Hall was one of the most distinguished. The word resistant was a Second World War term and not used during the Great War, instead the older term spy was applied to any person rebelling against the. “The Germans were equally impressed (if incensed) by the uncanny accuracy of the underground information flow, so efficient that new artillery placements were often bombed within days of being set up.”
Eve sheds light on all the sacrifices female operatives made in the name of patriotism during the Great War and how crucial they were to the war effort. She is the bridge between the two timelines. Eve’s part in the story takes place during WWI and then again in 1947.
Liberties were taken with a fictional character, based on a tiny scrap of historical truth, by the name of Eve Gardiner who worked with Lili.
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