Victoire

<p><b>'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carr&#233; - 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 Carr&#233; 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>