There is the difficulty of life in Lyon, occupied by the Germans with spies and Nazi collaborators around every corner. I loved the way Madeline Martin immerses us in two separate words during WW2. At first Elaine would help distribute the underground newsletter the group printed and later learnt how to operate the printer herself. Elaine (real name Hélène) joined the French resistance when her husband was arrested for being a member of the resistance, something he had kept secret from her. Portugal has remained a neutral country during the war so she will be able to French and German newspapers and flyers from the underground, film them on microfilm and send then back to Washington where they are analysed. Ava is a librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington DC when she is approached to join a special government group and go to Lisbon to work for a covert operation (the IDC) obtaining intelligence on the Nazis from newspapers and other publications. Set in 1941 in Lisbon and Lyon, the novel tells of the lives of two women, Ava and Elaine, working against the Nazis in WW2.
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