From international bestselling author, Ellen Butler, comes an award winning historical fiction novel inspired by true events.
A beautiful American spy flees into the night, hunted by the SS. Alone and exposed, she must outwit her enemies and cross enemy lines to reach the safety of Allied forces.
Lily Saint James grew up roaming Europe, mastering languages and blending into foreign cultures. But when her mother's sudden death calls her back to Washington, D.C., and Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into war, Lily's life takes a dangerous turn. Recruited by the newly formed Office of Strategic Services (OSS), her gift for languages lands her deep behind enemy lines ? undercover as a nanny in the home of a powerful German colonel.
But when her key contact vanishes and a midnight rendezvous turns deadly, Lily is forced to flee into the freezing night, carrying false papers and a mini film cartridge packed with critical intelligence. Every step toward Allied-controlled France brings new dangers ? ruthless SS agents, suspicious locals, treacherous terrain ? and with each heartbeat, the stakes rise.
The Brass Compass is an award-winning WWII spy novel that pulls readers into the heart-pounding world of espionage, resistance, and survival. Fans of The Lost Girls of Paris, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, Kate Quinn's The Alice Network , and those who enjoy stories of daring women operatives will be swept up in Lily's breathtaking journey ? a tribute to the real-life heroines whose courage shaped the course of history.
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*Inspired by true events.
A beautiful American spy flees into the night. On her own, she must live by her wits to evade capture and make it to the safety of the Allied forces.
Lily Saint James grew up traveling the European continent, learning languages as she went. In 1938, her mother's abrupt death brings her back home to Washington, D.C., and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lily comes to the attention of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Her knowledge of German, French, and Italian makes her the perfect OSS Agent, and her quick thinking places her as a nanny in the household of an important German Army Colonel, where she is able to gather intelligence for the Allies. She makes a late-night trip to her contact only to find him under interrogation by the SS. Realizing the spy ring is compromised, she flees into the frigid winter night carrying false identification papers that are now dangerous and a mini film cartridge with vital strategic information. In order to survive, Lily must make it out of Germany, into the hands of Allied-controlled France, through a path fraught with peril.