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    The Best of Our Spies
    The Best of Our Spies
    The Best of Our Spies
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    The Best of Our Spies

    Written by Alex Gerlis

    Narrated by John Lee

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    France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of Europe is under way. 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, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day. Appalled but determined, Owen sets off on a perilous hunt through France in search of his wife. With the help of the Resistance he finds Nathalie, but then the bitterness of war and its insatiable appetite for revenge catch up with them in dramatic fashion.
    Based on real events of the Second World War, The Best of Our Spies is a thrilling tale of international intrigue, love, deception, and espionage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 16, 2015
    ISBN9781494586706
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    Alex Gerlis

    Alex Gerlis was a BBC journalist for nearly thirty years and is the author of nine Second World war espionage thrillers, all published by Canelo. His first four novels are in the acclaimed Spy Masters series, including the best-selling The Best of Our Spies which is currently being developed as a television series. Prince of Spies was published in March 2020 and was followed by three more in the Prince series. His latest series is the Wolf Pack novels, with Agent in Berlin published in November 2021, with the second in the series due to be published in July 2022. Alex was born in Lincolnshire and now lives in west London with his wife and two black cats, a breed which makes cameo appearances in all his books. Alex has two daughters and two grandsons and supports Grimsby Town, which he believes helps him cope with the highs and especially the lows of writing a novel. He’s frequently asked if he’s ever worked for an intelligence agency but always declines to answer the question in the hope that someone may believe he actually has.

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    • 5/5
      I am following narrator John Lee through the site (previously, House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds). I am gaining the impression that any book narrated by John Lee is better than it would be otherwise. This book is a spy novel through and through, but it puts on many more hats than that. This book got me emotionally involved, and again, narrator's role in presenting the book cannot be overstated. I guess I'm into spy novels now

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    • 5/5
      Well written and believable characters. Accurate picture of WWII from view of British and France.
    • 2/5
      Characters are thin, just sort of like people you don’t know that well and aren’t that curious about. The pacing is really tedious - so much material has been written about these historical events, the characters have to shine because we already know what’s going to happen in the world of the novel. A disappointment.
    • 5/5
      A gripping novel built around the successful, masterful deception of "Fortitude", the allies plan to make the Germans believe D-Day would launch in the Pas-de-Calais, not Normandy. Nathalie Mercier is a deep cover Abwehr spy in Britain tasked with discovering the allies' plans for D-Day. Owen Quinn is a young naval officer, unknowingly recruited to allow Nathalie to think he is developing plans for D-Day in the Pas-de-Calais. Unfortunately, Owen falls in love with Nathalie, complicating matters. A compelling blend of fiction and fact.
    • 5/5
      Best spy novel I have ever read. Ever.   All spy stories should be this devious. Lt. Quinn, having been returned to England following his ship being bombed into oblivion off Crete, falls in love with one of his nurses. Unbeknownst to him she is a German spy in deep cover, but the spymasters in Bletchley Park know it and are manipulating their relationship so they can turn her into a double agent without her, or his, knowledge. “He has no idea whatsoever who she is. He is unaware of what is going on. Thinks this beautiful Frenchwoman who is two years older than him has fallen in love with him. He is like the cat that has found the cream, gallons of the stuff, in fact.” The idea is to feed her all sorts of false information leading to an assumption that the real invasion of the continent will take place at Pas de Calais and not Normandy which they want the Germans to believe is just a diversion. Then she is sent to France. Not only is it a terrific spy novel, but a good love story, as well and nicely set in an historical context. You will begin to question good and evil and whether the end can ever justify the means.