Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British secret service operative Noah Ainsworth is reflecting on the secret agents who saved his life when a mission went wrong during his perilous, exhilarating years in occupied France. He never knew her real name, nor whether she survived the war. His daughter Charlotte begins a search for answers.
What follows is the story of Fleur and Chloe, two ordinary women who are called up by the SOE for deployment in France in 1943. Taking enormous risks with very little information or support, the women have no idea they’re at the mercy of a double agent within their ranks.
As Charlotte’s search for answers bears fruit, suspicions emerge about the identity of the double agent, with unsettling implications for her father…
