The Best of Our Spies - Softcover

Gerlis, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782920005 ISBN 13: 9781782920007

Publisher: CB Creative Books, 2013

Synopsis

France, July 1944 It’s a month after the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day, and the liberation of Europe is underway. In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, finds out the truth about her role in the Allies’ sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day. Appalled by the discovery that the woman he loves is a Nazi spy, yet determined to track her down, Owen sets off on a perilous hunt through France in search of his wife. Can he find her before other, darker forces close in? Based on real Second World War events, The Best of Our Spies is a thrilling tale of international intrigue, love, deception and espionage from one of the greatest spy novelists of the modern age.

About this title

About the Author

Alex Gerlis was born in Lincolnshire and was a BBC journalist for more than 25 years.  He left in 2011 and is now a full-time author.  His books are factually based and carefully researched espionage novels set in Europe during the Second World War.  'The Best of Our Spies' was published in December 2012, followed by 'The Swiss Spy'  in June 2015.  Between them the two novels have sold almost 90,000 copies and have amassed more than 1,150 Amazon reviews.  His third novel, set in Vienna in the period 1944-45, will be published by Studio 28 in April 2017.  Alex Gerlis lives in west London and is married with two daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: CB Creative Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782920005
• ISBN 13: 9781782920007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 618