Having completed her S.O.E. spy
training. Maggie Hope is being sent to Berlin on her first mission;
the first woman dropped behind enemy lines. The simple mission,
deliver radio crystals to a resistance group and plant a microphone
in Clara Hess' study, is complicated by Maggie's background and
character. Clara Hess is her mother, and Maggie's curiosity and
desire to help the war effort encourage her to remain in Berlin at
the end of the mission.
The book is filled with accurate
historic detail including the Naxi's euthenasia of defective
children, and the shipment of Jews to “work” camps. Maggie isn't
the only one in Berlin working to expose the murder of children. Her
sister, Elsie Hess, a nurse in the hospital the children are being
transported from, discovers the activity and teams up with Maggie to
expose it.
Characters from the previous books,
David, John and Hugo have their own subplots making this a more
complex book than the previous novels in the series.
I enjoyed this book. The plot moves
smoothly between London and Berlin contrasting the wartime activities
in the two capitals. While the plot is resolved at the end of the
book, there are still unresolved issues that lead to what I am sure
will be a fourth novel.
I reviewed this book for the Amazon
Vine Program.
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