Code Name Hélène

During World War II, Nancy Wake was a skilled combatant, smuggler, spy, and wanted criminal, able to take on any role to oppose the Nazi advance. But it all began a few years before the conflict, when Nancy - a young Australian expatriate - met, knew, and fell in love with the most notorious seducer in all of France, Henri Fiocca. Paris and the French Riviera were the locations of their love, but only for a short time. The war was beginning to make its threats felt everywhere. So Henri was enlisted and Nancy began smuggling documents and aiding fugitives. The Gestapo put a bounty of five million francs on her head, but she continued her activism, and her fame grew even more when she arrived in London and, after rigorous training, became part of the English spies sent to the continent.

An engaging, romantic, and historically documented novel that wonderfully brings to life an extraordinary character, with many identities, but with the unique cunning of a top-class spy.

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