Solitaire

By Jane Thynne

Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Germany, fiction, Germany, World War, 1939-1945, Women spies, Fiction, Vine, Clara (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Vine, Clara (Fictitious character), Spy stories, Women spies -- Germany -- Fiction

Description: June 1940: the first summer of the war. Berlin is being bombed and nightly blackouts suffocate the city. Then France falls and a shadow descends. A shadow has fallen over Clara Vine's own life, too. She is an English citizen in a country that hates her. Virulent anti-British propaganda is everywhere. Then she is summoned to meet the Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who has decided that Clara should adopt a new role - as his spy - and that she must go to Paris on a mission. Much as she dislikes the idea, Clara realises this might be the chance to find an escape route to England - but Goebbels has other ideas.