The Brass Compass
- Authors
- Ellen Butler
- Publisher
- Power to the Pen
- Tags
- female progagonist , strong female lead , british army , soe oss french resistance , literature , historical fiction , women's fiction suspense , spies spying espionage , nazis hitler concentration camp , holocaust , american army navy war , historical wars , d-day normandy parachuting , wwii world war two , germany war , allied occupation paris france , buchenwald , ss gestapo nazi , interrogation spy , france french resistance , female protagonist thriller suspense , nightengale
- Date
- 2017-05-22
- Size
- 0.48 MB
- Lang
- en
*Inspired by true events.
A beautiful American spy flees into the night. On her own, she must live by her wits to evade capture and make it to the safety of the Allied forces.
Lily Saint James grew up traveling the European continent, learning languages as she went. In 1938, her mother's abrupt death brings her back home to Washington, D.C., and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lily comes to the attention of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Her knowledge of German, French, and Italian makes her the perfect OSS Agent, and her quick thinking places her as a nanny in the household of an important German Army Colonel, where she is able to gather intelligence for the Allies. She makes a late-night trip to her contact only to find him under interrogation by the SS. Realizing the spy ring is compromised, she flees into the frigid winter night carrying false identification papers that are now dangerous and a mini film cartridge with vital strategic information....