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Is Louise Wellesley insane? In 1940 she fled the Gestapo in Nazi-run Paris, escaping torture and death. In 1941 she parachuted into southern France and now everyone wants her head - the Vichy police, Gestapo, the Resistance, even the Catholic Church. She's captured and tortured but discovers a terrible secret. Special Operations Executive agents are being killed in France thanks to a traitor in the SOE headquarters in Baker Street, London. It could be anyone. Louise can't radio the fact because it may tip off the mole. To get back to England and expose the collaborator, she needs to escape from France on the Freedom Trail to Spain. That means climbing the mighty Pyrenees where enemy patrols, traitors, sheer drops and a raging river await. Her acting skills have never been so tested. How can she discover the SOE Judas? A Plum Jewel is Nancy Wake and Sherlock Holmes meets Louise Beatrice Wellesley aka Plum.

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In occupied France, Plum, AKA Louise Beatrice Wellesley, has made quite a name for herself. She was incidental in the death of a bishop among other things. Now, it's time for the young British agent to make her way to the Spanish border and thence back to Britain so she can expose a mole in the secret service. That is complicated by an incident on a train where she is forced to protect the lives of some British pilots who return the favor when she is arrested by the Gestapo. After many setbacks, she falls in with a band of fleeing Jews being led over the Pyrenees by a duplicitous guide. The Frenchman meets an unfortunate end, and the party is panicked at the prospect of being lost in the mountains with Vichy agents on their tail. Plum has no choice but to take charge of the band of refugees. This is the third instalment in the series about a beautiful young actress turned spy. In the opinion of this reader it may be the best. Cenarth Fox has loaded this tale with so many twists and obstacles the reader may feel the need to take notes. Mr. Fox's research and knowledge of the working of wartime Britain and France is remarkable. The reader is right in the middle of the action. I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Scott Skipper

In occupied France, Plum, AKA Louise Beatrice Wellesley, has made quite a name for herself. She was incidental in the death of a bishop among other things. Now, it's time for the young British agent to make her way to the Spanish border and thence back to Britain so she can expose a mole in the secret service. That is complicated by an incident on a train where she is forced to protect the lives of some British pilots who return the favor when she is arrested by the Gestapo. After many setbacks, she falls in with a band of fleeing Jews being led over the Pyrenees by a duplicitous guide. The Frenchman meets an unfortunate end, and the party is panicked at the prospect of being lost in the mountains with Vichy agents on their tail. Plum has no choice but to take charge of the band of refugees. This is the third instalment in the series about a beautiful young actress turned spy. In the opinion of this reader it may be the best. Cenarth Fox has loaded this tale with so many twists and obstacles the reader may feel the need to take notes. Mr. Fox's research and knowledge of the working of wartime Britain and France is remarkable. The reader is right in the middle of the action. I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Scott Skipper

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