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Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival
'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and
"Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The
Times An exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one
of WW2's most charismatic double-agents. Occupied Paris, 1940. A
woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street.
She is Mathilde Carre, codenamed 'the Cat', later known as Agent
Victoire - charismatic, daring and a spy. These are the darkest
days for France, yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of destiny that
she will be her nation's saviour. Soon, she is at the centre of the
first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World War.
But as Roland Philipps shows in this extraordinary account of her
life, when the Germans close in, Mathilde makes a desperate and
dangerous compromise. Nobody - not her German handler, nor the
Resistance and the British - can be certain where her allegiances
now lie... 'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly
told' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline 'Gripping... Enough
plot twists and moral ambiguity to satisfy any spy novelist'
Spectator
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