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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

Also, Bucky couldn’t say why he sensed that, aside from the difference in their ranks, the sergeant was not held in high esteem by his superiors.

The captain turned to Madame Dupree, standing nervously nearby, and addressed her in impeccable French. “Is this everyone?”

“Oui, Capitaine,” she said. “Monsieur Beaulieu is the last one.”

“Splendid.” He smiled and greeted the group in French with a small bow. “Messieurs and mesdames, I will ask that you kindly turn over your papers to me and give your names, room numbers, duties, and places of employment to my lieutenant, who will translate them for the sergeant to write down. But first, allow me to introduce myself. I am Captain Edmund Achterberg, and these are Oberleutnant Fredrik Dahl and Unterfeldwebel Dirk Drechsler.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

That same Sunday, to her chagrin, Victoria was summoned early on her day of rest to report to the L’Ecole d’Escrime Français. It happened that she was already up, having planned to catch the metro deeper into the Latin Quarter to interview a woman who might have knowledge of her fiancé’s fate. Victoria was following the only lead her brother had been able to give her. Though no one had seen Ralph’s parachute after he was shot down over Gennevilliers, a municipality about nine miles northwest of the center of Paris, a report suggested that several pilots had made it to a boardinghouse in the Latin Quarter whose proprietor, Madame Gabrielle Dupree, had offered shelter and safety. The failure of the RAF bombing raid over the aircraft engine factory in May was still being gleefully recounted by her German students. The plant had hardly been damaged, but thirty-four French civilians were killed and 167 injured. The citizens of Gennevilliers, therefore, had not been inclined to help downed Allied airmen. Victoria had managed to locate the address of the boardinghouse and was hoping to meet Madame Dupree to learn if one of the surviving airmen was Ralph DuPont.

“I am sorry, Mademoiselle Colbert, but you were specifically requested,” Jacques Vogel, the school’s director and fencing master, apologized over the phone at the registration desk of Victoria’s lodging, a small residential hotel.

“Who asked for me?”

A pause. “Derrick Albrecht. You may have heard of him?”

“Should I have?”

“Perhaps. In the thirties, he was Germany’s top fencing champion in foil.”

Vaguely, the name emerged from the list of international fencing stars Victoria had read about. “What does he want with me?”

“He requires a fencing bout today to stay in form and wishes to set up a regular schedule with you.”

“Why not with you? You’re the best.”

“He has heard of you and…feels that you will provide a suitable challenge.” It went unsaid that Victoria had no choice in the matter.