When Rosie Ewing (wartime secret agent) read Alexander Fullerton's four novels based on her adventures in German-occupied France, she wrote to him suggesting that he might like to hear the story of her first mission, when she'd parachuted into moonlit countryside near Cahors and made her way down to Toulouse to join the SOE network as a radio-operator and courier.
Rosie is twenty-four at the time, when the expected life-span of a radio-operator was six weeks. A group, codenamed Countryman, are briefed by London to get a certain German out of Vichy's hands - but what they don't know is that they themselves are being sold out to the Gestapo. Betrayal is the dread every agent lives with every minute of every day, but Rosie has survived to tell her extraordinary tale…
PRAISE FOR ALEXANDER FULLERTON:
- 'His action passages are superb and he never puts a period foot wrong' The Observer
- 'The research is unimpeachable and the scent of battle quite overpowering' Sunday Times
- 'The most meticulously researched war novels that I have ever read' Len Deighton
- 'The tension rarely slackens and the setting is completely convincing' Times Literary Supplement
- 'The accuracy and flair of Forester at his best' Irish Times
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Published 05/04/2007