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May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
371 pages
ISBN: 1590515277
EAN: 9781590515273
Kindle: B005MU3V7W
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Fiction Family Life
Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war
effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand
out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts
the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive,
which trains agents to operate in occupied Europe. Drawn
into this strange, secret world at the age of nineteen, she
finds herself undergoing commando training, attending a
“school for spies,” and ultimately, one autumn night,
parachuting into France from an RAF bomber to join the
WORDSMITH resistance network. But there’s more to Marian’s mission than meets the eye
of her SOE controllers; her mission has been hijacked by
another secret organization that wants her to go to Paris
and persuade a friend—a research physicist—to join the
Allied war effort. The outcome could affect the whole course
of the war. A fascinating blend of fact and fiction, Trapeze is both
an old-fashioned adventure story and a modern exploration of
a young woman’s growth into adulthood. There is violence,
and there is love. There is death and betrayal, deception
and revelation. But above all there is Marian Sutro, an
ordinary young woman who, like her real-life counterparts in
the SOE, did the most extraordinary things at a time when
the ordinary was not enough.
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