THE BOOK OF JUDITH

A riveting spy novel.

Emily Ann is a rich American woman whose life is turned upside down in Paris when she meets a Russian revolutionary who has fallen from grace. Meanwhile, in a secret training camp, Cécile, a young French Canadian woman recruited by the British Secret Service, is getting to grips with her wartime alias. Many years later, Andrew, a pastor recently released from jail, listens to the harrowing confessions of an 106-year-old
parishioner as Virginie, an author of historical fiction, starts to write the biography of a woman who was a spy during the Second World War. Life has woven a web of connections between these characters that will shed light on the mysterious disappearance of a Special Operations Executive agent, the organization created by Churchill to destabilize the German occupation in continental Europe.

In this breathless and remarkably well-structured epic historical thriller, Mylène Gilbert-Dumas shines the spotlight on the heroism of some exceptional young women who fought against Nazi barbarism during a sadly little-known episode of the Second World War. As always, the truth she conveys through her characters flows straight to readers' hearts.

Mylène Gilbert-Dumas is an author of historical fiction whose novels have won an array of prestigious literary awards in Canada and earned her a substantial following of loyal readers.