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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 opened the salle door and steered her outside. “I didn’t know for sure of your sad discovery until you just confirmed it. So why would I wish to arrest a woman who came to the country of her enemy only to search in vain for the man she loved? Do you think me that much of a fiend?”

He paused, brow raised, to await Victoria’s answer. When she remained silent, he sighed disappointedly. “I can only extend my condolences to such a woman and envy the man who had earned such courage and devotion. Now shall we?” He indicated the door that Karl held open to the back seat of the staff car. Victoria slipped in and the colonel settled beside her. In the whirling reel of her emotions was the relief that for the moment, she and her cover were safe. She could assume that the colonel’s dig into her personal life had missed her undergraduate studies in German and the detail of her sabbatical from G. P. Putnam’s Sons in New York—information that in any intelligence organization in the world would have raised a red flag. So for the time being, she was unsuspected of being a spy. The Nazis shot spies. They did not send them off to concentration facilities or labor camps; they lined them up against a wall and shot them. Victoria forced back a surge of hysterical laughter over the irony of it. Ralph’s failed flight over Paris had saved her mission, and his death, her life from the firing squad.

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE

Sundays, Achim Fleischer took a break from his guard duty, but on Saturdays he stayed until the Jewish curfew, when he was relieved by the presence of German patrols in the area. Bridgette was therefore surprised when she returned to the convent Saturday after the meeting at La Petite Madeleine and did not find him at his post, nor was he there this Monday morning of November 2 as she set off for La Maison de Boucher. The day had broken foggy and rain was forecast, but, like the American mailman, Achim Fleischer had so far allowed neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night to stay him from his appointed rounds. Had he become ill?

With a nick of concern, Bridgette looked up and down the street for a glimpse of his rain gear, the white cap and cape worn by municipal policemen, but the Rue des Soeurs de Charité offered no sign of him. Bridgette stood a moment in the thick fog and silence. His absence was unsettling. The street seemed eerily empty without him. He had become a fixed feature of her morning. When no one was about who raised suspicions of imminent mischief, he would walk with her to the corner and see her off to the metro with a wish that she enjoy her day.