Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Code Name Verity 

by Elizabeth Wein  

 

I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.

That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.

He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I’m going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France — an Allied Invasion of Two.

We are a sensational team.

 

(summary from goodreads.com)

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This book has been on my radar for a long long time and I finally got around to reading it. FASCINATING. The first half of the book seemed glacial, I read a bit, moved on to another book, remembered it again and picked it up. This went on a few times until I reached a point where I couldn't put it down and raced through the rest of the book. Such a fabulous take on women in WWII and a poignant tale of best friends. I loved it.

Mom note: As a mother of readers, I also want to make a note to myself (and others if they care) why I would or would not have my children read this book, because honestly, sometimes I forget. This is a YA book, so everything is within YA strictures. Violence: yes; Profanity: yes; Sex: groping and such