The Alice Network by Kate QuinnMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
What happens when you add together two very stubborn women, multiply by chaos and loss, and divide by evildoers determined to injure? One truly amazing story.
Based on the real Alice network, which had infiltrated German lines in rural France during WW1, the non-stop action in this story brings espionage to life on every page. I am not sure I ever before gasped for air while reading a book, but this one had me holding my breath for long stretches – oh, the exquisite tension!
Charlie (Charlotte) is 19, pregnant, unmarried and unable to forget her cousin Rose – lost like so many during WW2. Eve is a pugilistic, damaged, drunken, ex-spy with a distaste for “yanks” like Charlie, and a score to settle with the devil himself.
A good part of the action takes place during the First World War when Eve was actively and successfully spying on the Germans in German-occupied France. When Charlie meets Eve through a perfect storm of circumstances and asks for her help in finding cousin Rose, it is 1947 and Eve was, by then, a brittle, broken, foul-mouthed, battle axe.
They are an unlikely pairing for sure but together they face their ghosts and find the guts to take back their ransomed souls.
A page-turner of the first order.
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