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The child of bourgeois Parisian parents, she had studied at the Sorbonne, worked briefly in an insurance company, trained as a teacher, and then married a childhood friend before swiftly discovering she could not stand him. This last group was crucial, as Calais was, with its short sea-crossing, such an obviously good place to attack and the more German forces were stationed there, the fewer there would be able to cover the real landing sites in Normandy. The double agents and their controllers become ever more reckless, even inventing an absurd troupe of dedicated Welsh antisemites who stop at nothing to infiltrate top secret bases.
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The chemistry between Alex and Jezzie is palpable, and the two may not be able to stop themselves from giving in to an affair of passion despite the risks.It is astounding to realise the control the Allies had over information sent to the Germans and the inventive ways to which this was put to use. Alex, Sampson, and Bree go to a press conference in Baltimore, where Alex finds a message from DCAK stating that Alex is missing the "show". One night, she stood on a high bridge, about to kill herself, but then changed her mind: “Instead of throwing myself into the Garonne, I would fling myself into the war. MI5, with advance warning of infiltration, had no trouble picking up almost all of the spies sent to the country. Macintyre depicts the Double Cross spies as unconventional heroes, sometimes selfish and petulant, sometimes spying out of greed and managing to infuriate their British handlers - but he emphasizes that they were still heroes who helped to changed the course of the war and who definitely saved many, many Allied lives on D-Day and in its aftermath.
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A crucial aspect of the system was the need for genuine information to be sent along with the deception material. We both had some intellectual pretensions,” wrote Popov, but “[we were] addicted to sports cars and sporting girls and had enough money to keep them both running. The author notes that this story wouldn't have been able to be written at all if the British secret services hadn't fairly recently decided to open up the files for this time period. In early 1940, Popov was living in Dubrovnik, where he had opened his own law firm, and conducting affairs with at least four women, when he received a telegram from his old friend summoning him to Belgrade: “Need to meet you urgently. He has donated over a million books for students to read and often would focus on schools as well as youth programs that did not have the proper resources.But even the most cursory reader of Macintyre's account has to be chilled by the stupidity of it all. So Agent Garbo, Agent Bronx and the rest laboured away with their coded telegrams and invisible ink, imagining troop manoeuvres and conveniently overheard military indiscretions. Employing a wry wit and a keen eye for detail, he delivers an ultimately winning tale fraught with European intrigue and subtle wartime heroics. Double Cross is the 13th novel in the Alex Cross series featuring Detective Alex Cross by James Patterson.