'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and
"Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The
Times 'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly
told' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline RESISTANCE,
COLLABORATION AND BETRAYAL 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.
She is charismatic, daring, and a spy; her story is one of heroism
and survival against the odds. These are the darkest days for
France, half-occupied by Nazi Germany, half-governed by the
collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain, isolated
and under threat of invasion. Yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of
destiny that she will be her nation's saviour. With little training
or support, Mathilde and her Polish collaborator, Roman
Czerniawski, create a huge web of agents in a matter of weeks to
form the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second
World War. They risk torture and execution to deliver their coded
reports, London's sole source of reliable information about the
Occupation. But the 'Big Network' is threatened at every turn and
when the Germans inevitably close in Mathilde makes a desperate
compromise. She enters a hall of mirrors in which any bond is
doubtful and every action could be fatal. Nobody is certain where
her allegiances lie - her German handler, the founder of the
Resistance she ensnares and the British who eventually succeed in
extracting her on a fast boat all have to make their own
calculations. Is she a double, possibly even a triple agent, and,
if so, can she be trusted to turn yet again? Victoire is the story
of a passionate, courageous spy but also of a fragile hero,
desperate to belong - a portrait of patriotism and survival in
momentous times. Drawing on a wide range of new and first-hand
material, Roland Philipps has written a dazzling tale of audacity,
complicity and the choices made in wartime.
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