![]() But Godfrey appears to have other allegiances that Juliet doesn’t at first comprehend. While she is infiltrating a ring of Nazi sympathisers in London during the period leading up to WWII Juliet is intrigued by the shadowy, unsentimental figure of Godfrey Toby, who in the light of day is a colleague who has been tasked with extracting information from Englishmen and -women who hope for victory for Hitler. I ripped through the book in just two lazy sessions spent on the couch. There are deep secrets which are only revealed when you think that every possible drama has finally played itself out. The real story is how Juliet changed in her relationship with the organisation over the years. In the midst of the confusing and sometimes paradoxical deployment of national energies that were unleashed by numerous countries in those years stands Juliet Armstrong, who works for MI5 as a typist and then as an operative in her own right. In the scenes set in the 1940s the fight is against Nazism and in the period immediately after the war the fight is against Communism. ![]() But it is also a timely novel of ideas because of the way it discusses the political movements that animated that era. This engrossing spy novel is set in England during the war and in the period immediately after it. ![]()
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