Code Name Verity
The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson). October 11th, 1943--A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As 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. 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 will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of resolve, danger, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
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I’m not writing a review because I didn’t finish reading this book because it was so dreadfully boring that I could not even remotely get into it. The plot twist was obvious...I already knew it was coming, and I simply cannot recommend this to anyone. If you want to read a good World War II novel with a strong feminine hero, read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. That is a good World War II novel.
Lots of literary references in 3 languages, amid a glimpse of Nazi interrogation tactics. In parts horrifying, confusing and heartwarming story of two young women trapped by their own competence in the WWII war machine. Julie (Verity), a wealthy Scottish educated in Switzerland, is a polyglot and actress with a whip smart mind. She becomes a spy. Maddie, an orphaned Brit living with grandparents, is a genius at all things mechanical and becomes a pilot. Their friendship is chronicled in a most unusual way, through the tortured meanderings of Verity after she is captured and the journaling of Maddie after a crash. The story becomes more than either imagines possible, yet both hoped.