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Dragonfly

Leila Meacham
Chapters (117)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. The Cast of Characters
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. The Recruits
  8. CHAPTER TWO
  9. CHAPTER THREE
  10. CHAPTER FOUR
  11. CHAPTER FIVE
  12. CHAPTER SIX
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT
  15. CHAPTER NINE
  16. CHAPTER TEN
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE
  19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  23. The Missions
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  46. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  55. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  56. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  65. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  66. The Game
  67. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  75. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  76. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  77. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  85. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  86. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  87. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  88. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  89. CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
  90. CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO
  91. CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE
  92. CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR
  93. HOME
  94. CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE
  95. CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX
  96. CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN
  97. CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT
  98. CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE
  99. CHAPTER NINETY
  100. CHAPTER NINETY-ONE
  101. CHAPTER NINETY-TWO
  102. CHAPTER NINETY-THREE
  103. CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR
  104. CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE
  105. CHAPTER NINETY-SIX
  106. CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN
  107. CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT
  108. CHAPTER NINETY-NINE
  109. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
  110. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED ONE
  111. Acknowledgments
  112. Discover More
  113. About the Author
  114. Reading Group Guide
  115. Discussion Questions
  116. A Conversation with Leila Meacham
  117. ALSO BY LEILA MEACHAM

Cover

cover

Title Page

Dedication

In dedication to Ann Ferguson Zeigler, again.

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Epigraph

The sun on the hill forgot to die, and the lilies revived, and the dragonfly came back to dream on the river.

(WELSH INSCRIPTION)

The Cast of Characters

The Americans

(BUCKY) Samuel Barton, civil engineer
OSS code name: LODESTAR
Working name: Stephane Beaulieu

Bridgette Loring, fashion designer
OSS code name: LABRADOR
Working name: Bernadette Dufor

(CHRIS) Christoph Brandt, track-and-field coach
OSS code name: LAPWING
Working name: Claus Bauer

Brad Hudson, fly-fisherman
OSS code name: LIMPET
Working name: Barnard Wagner

Victoria Grayson, fencer of foil
OSS code name: LIVERWORT
Working name: Veronique Colbert

Alistair Renault, OSS case officer, chief of station for French Affairs, aka the man in brown

The Germans

Major General Konrad March: head of the Abwehr, the German intelligence agency in Paris

Wilhelm March, the general’s son

Sergeant Hans Falk, the general’s aide-de-camp

SS Colonel Derrick Albrecht, chief of the counterintelligence division of the security service of the Reichsführer (SD)

Sergeant Karl Brunner, the colonel’s aide-de-camp

The French

Beaumont Fournier, author

Nicholas Cravois, the Black Ghost

Madame Jeanne Boucher, owner of the Paris fashion house La Maison de Boucher

Claude Allard, riverboat captain and owner of a fishing tour company in Paris

Jules Garnier, director of personnel at the Sorbonne

Madame Gabrielle Dupree, proprietress of a boardinghouse and landlady to Bucky

Madame Adeline Gastain, neighbor to Major General Konrad March

Maurice Corbett, chief of detectives, French National Police

Sister Mary Frances, mother superior of the Convent of the Sisters of Charity

Jacques Vogel, director of the L’Ecole d’Escrime Français

Henri Burrell, Alistair’s man in Paris

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Explanations of
German Military Organizations

Wehrmacht: the German Army

Abwehr: the German intelligence agency, a branch of the German Army

Schutzstaffel: SS

Waffen SS: the military arm of the SS

Allegemeine SS: the administrative arm of the SS

Sicherheitsdienst: the security service of the Reichsführer, operating under the Allegemeine

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER ONE

September 1962

Cambridge, Maryland

The man in brown snapped shut the book he’d been reading and looked up with a stare of disbelief. There was no doubt about it, absolutely none. The five-member team the author described in this obscure little book about clandestine operations in German-occupied France during WWII was the same group he’d sent into Paris in the fall of 1942. Four had made it home, one barely, the last left behind dead, buried in an unmarked grave on French soil. Or so they’d all believed…