The Silent Hen

<p><em>The Silent Hen</em> is fiction based on actual events of WWII written by Helen Montague Foster as a tribute to her parents and other courageous men and women of the OSS whose secret struggles and relationships continue to impact the world.</p><p><br></p><p>This morally complex story follows a Jewish child sheltered by a Muslim couple in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia and a Virginia woman named Lucy whose conscience compels her to enlist in the OSS forerunner to the CIA for service in Egypt.</p><p><br></p><p>After an OSS man in love is severely injured in a parachute drop he and the child Bella begin a harrowing journey to Egypt where Lucy's resemblance to Bella's murdered mother will confront them with decisions for which there are no easy answers.</p>