![]() He may or may not actually be a professor of Slavic languages, but he sets off delicious little tingles whenever he’s near. She’s also confused about her fellow boarder Joe Prager. She even breaks into the French embassy for more information on Gerald Bloch. She frets over FBI agents staking out her boarding house. She chats up Clark Gable at a posh mansion. Louise fends off several would-be suitors who may be Vichy supporters. But it’s difficult knowing whom to trust. Donovan, and have him initiate plans to bring Rachel to the States. She resolves to find the file, get it to Gen. Louise, who was best friends with Rachel Bloch at college, is desperate to save her from the Reich’s clutches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next thing you know, the supervisor is found dead in his ransacked office and the document has gone missing. When she comes upon a document from Gerald Bloch, a hydrography expert on the coastline of French North Africa, requesting asylum for his Jewish wife and child while he joins the Resistance to fight the Nazis, she takes it to her supervisor. Louise Pearlie, whose husband died five years ago after his measles led to pneumonia, moves from North Carolina to Washington, D.C., where she begins work as a clerk in the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. An OSS file draws the attention of a young widow. ![]()
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