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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

He heard his neighbor pass his room and quickly stepped out, catching him at the head of the stairs. The Frenchman was dressed for the weather and in finer clothes than he wore to work. “Headed for church?” Dirk called in broken French.

His neighbor’s back stiffened as if he’d suddenly been caught with a hand in the till, and Dirk indeed caught a deer-in-the-the headlights expression when he glanced around.

“Oui,” he said.

“Well, then, say one for me.”

“Excusez-moi?”

“A prayer. Say a prayer for me.”

“D’accord,” his neighbor said and hurried on down the stairs.

Dirk went back to his room and grabbed his army overcoat. For something to do this Sunday, he’d go to church, too. He’d follow Stephane Beaulieu to whichever one he attended, probably the Catholic church on the corner. It would be nice to sit in a pew again and listen to organ music in a quiet, candlelit sanctuary with people not wearing Nazi uniforms, never mind that the church wasn’t Lutheran. Maybe he could entice the engineer to go to lunch with him, his treat. He knew a café that treated German soldiers especially well. But to Dirk’s disappointment and discomfort—he was shivering to his gonads even in his overcoat—Stephane Beaulieu did not enter the church on the corner. He hurried past it toward the metro as if late for an appointment.

Dirk never knew the source of the nudge that prompted him to follow Stephane Beaulieu. The engineer’s reaction when he hailed him at the stairs was definitely enough to rouse suspicions, but Dirk preferred to believe that the push came from the hand of God. He had not deserted him, after all, for when he successfully managed to tail the French engineer to his destination, he saw a way to get back home to America again.

Stephane Beaulieu’s metro ride took him to the port village of Honfleur, where he walked to a tall, narrow town house wedged between an automotive shop and fish market. Mingling among churchgoers attending services in the church opposite, Dirk saw a woman open the door to the engineer’s knock, and Dirk’s pulse raced when the Frenchman threw a furtive glance over his shoulder down the street. When Stephane stepped inside, Dirk had turned into the church’s walled cemetery, where he could keep an eye on the house through a chink in the ancient stone. After a couple of endless hours the door opened again, and Dirk beheld a scene that stunned his eyes unless they had deceived him: Stephane Beaulieu embraced by the most wanted man in France, the bearded leader of the Resistance, the former French Army general and Resistance leader Nicholas Cravois.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE