Victoire Av Roland Philipps

<p><b>''The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carr¿ 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¿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>