Harrowing and beautifully written, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that reveals just how far true friends will go to save each other. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from a merciless and ruthless enemy? On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But it won’t be what they expect.Īs she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. A Retrospective in Diverse Books – A List (1904-1986).Links to further information on Ravensbrück.
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