Codename: Madeleine: Love, Valour and Betrayal

The Resistance, Book 1

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Codename: Madeleine: Love, Valour and Betrayal

By: Barnaby Jameson

Narrated by: Olivia Williams

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A mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War.

A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front.

A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity.

An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books.

Each will make a journey that changes history.

The constellations will force the mystic's daughter to make an impossible choice. To remain at her harp as the shadow of the war looms again—or join the top-secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Bābouli to her Sufi father, Madeleine to the Gestapo, a lone mission to Occupied Paris promises to be the most hazardous of World War Two.

Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with tigers, zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, angels, assassins, chessmen, cyanide, beetles, butterflies, and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India, and Latin America, Codename: Madeleine is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry, and resistance.

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I primed myself for a WWII spy thriller. Codename: Madeleine was so much more. A deeply moving, humbling account spanning 1914 to 1944 through the lens of both World Wars that had me hooked from Chapter One.

The constellation of remarkable characters including the protagonist Noor Inayat Khan are vividly and sensitively portrayed, with a teasing tempo so beautifully narrated. The plot delivers quite a few visceral punches, while the story’s spiritual path and mystical fables gently yet powerfully stroke the soul.

I found the sensual depictions of colour, nature, (food!) and sartorials along with fantastically original, occasionally laugh-out-loud analogies, a sublime combination. The clipped sentence style and evident depth of historic research strike to the heart of both the story and it’s listener. A phenomenal debut…