Victoire

<p><b>'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carré - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' </b><b><i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>An exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.</b><br><br><b>Occupied Paris, 1940.</b> A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the Cat', later known as Agent Victoire - charismatic, daring and a spy.<br><br>These are the darkest days for France, yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of destiny that she will be her nation's saviour. Soon, she is at the centre of the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World War.<br><br>But as Roland Philipps shows in this extraordinary account of her life, when the Germans close in, Mathilde makes a desperate and dangerous compromise. Nobody - not her German handler, nor the Resistance and the British - can be certain where her allegiances now lie...<br><br><b>'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' </b><b>Philippe Sands, author of <i>The Ratline</i></b><br><br><b>'Gripping... Enough plot twists and moral ambiguity to satisfy any spy novelist' <i>Spectator</i></b></p> <p><b>'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carré - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' </b><b><i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>An exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.</b><br><br><b>Occupied Paris, 1940.</b> A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the Cat', later known as Agent Victoire - charismatic, daring and a spy.<br><br>These are the darkest days for France, yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of destiny that she will be her nation's saviour. Soon, she is at the centre of the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World War.<br><br>But as Roland Philipps shows in this extraordinary account of her life, when the Germans close in, Mathilde makes a desperate and dangerous compromise. Nobody - not her German handler, nor the Resistance and the British - can be certain where her allegiances now lie...<br><br><b>'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' </b><b>Philippe Sands, author of <i>The Ratline</i></b><br><br><b>'Gripping... Enough plot twists and moral ambiguity to satisfy any spy novelist' <i>Spectator</i></b></p>