When Lt. Colin Mabry, an officer working with MI8 decoding messages from France, discovers a message written to him from a woman he once loved and thought dead, he immediately rushes to France to help her, only to discover the message wasn't from the woman he knew--it was from a half-sister he had never heard of. Johanna Reyer works in a dovecote run by French Intelligence, and with the help of a diary she stumbled across, believes her sister to be alive and in the custody of a German spy, but she needs Colin's help to find her. With spies abounding and situations rarely what they seem, will Colin and Johanna trust each other enough to pull off the mission?Spy, spy, counterspy . . . I enjoy a thrilling spy novel where one doesn't know whom to trust and things are rarely what they seem, and this one proved most satisfactory. I love the WWI setting, with all the touches that make it authentic--carrier pigeons, influenza, neutral Spain, the horses (or slaughter there-of, being as WWI was the war in which the most horses were killed). Breslin's stories are always captivating, and this was no exception.
I loved how Colin works around--and learns to work with--his prosthetic, and that Johanna is so affirming, expressing her belief that it doesn't make him undesirable or less of a man. They make a really good pair, with his love of order and attention to detail and her flexibility. Overall, it was a most enjoyable tale.
Thank you Bethany House and NetGalley for the complimentary e-book. I was not required to write a positive review, and all opinions are my own.
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