The Giller Prize Finalist
“The Tiger Claw is a first-rate spy thriller and also first-rate literature. Set in the 1940s in Occupied Paris with haunting similarities to the world today, this is a novel that reminds us that sometimes only fiction can really tell us the truth. …The story of one woman’s courage in the face of racism, betrayal and hypocrisy on one hand and the evils of war on the other. It is also a love story between Muslim and Jew told in a language that resonates with mysticism and romance—yet it is brutally honest in its assessment of motives and ambiguities.”
—Giller Prize judges
“Baldwin finds a Muslim woman who has much to teach our own time. …She becomes more ambitious with every book. …Years of careful research on three continents, as well as extensive contact with her subject’s extended family, result in a portrait of Noor Inayat Khan that explains why she did what she did in compelling, convincing ways.”
—The Globe and Mail
“A stirring tale of love and betrayal in a foreign land. Like the troubadour, [Baldwin] has the natural gift of pinning you to the window of her imagination until you hang by her each word and every twist and turn of the tale, begging for more.”
—India Today
“The Tiger Claw brilliantly reveals the shifting sands of allegiance in times of war and the duplicity required for survival when all who are operating underground are interdependent but no one can be trusted fully.”
—The Gazette (Montreal)
“I only had to read the novel’s first line to know what was in store. … A fascinating portrait of a legendary woman and a novel that, in turn, examines love, religion, nationalism and sacrifice.”
—The Sun Times (Owen Sound)
“It’s a fiction closer to truth than any authorized account. …Baldwin’s ability to bring her characters to life has never been in question and it reigns supreme now.”
—Outlook (India)