![]() Melanie Benjamin’s Mistress of the Ritz is based on the real-life stories of the American women who secretly worked for the Resistance, while mingling with the occupying Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris. This is a list of my favorite novels with female spies, written by women (with one exception), and inspired by the feats of the heroic women who served as spies in WWII. ![]() The more I’ve learned about these women, the more impressed I become and the more I ask myself: would I have had this kind of courage if I’d been alive eighty years ago? Her real-life story is relayed in Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu and M. I was especially inspired by Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, who did her paramilitary training in Arisaig, Scotland and went to secret agent “finishing school” in Beaulieu, England, then sent on to Paris. Robbie, like most of us, never studied these spies in school.įrom the moment I began researching my main character Maggie Hope-a mathematician who’s a codebreaker and SOE agent-I went back to the real-life agents who made such brave contributions to the war effort. The only difference was that the cries were muffled and, in many instances, the corpses were never found.” General (Sir) Colin Gubbins, the chief of SOE, said after the war, “Per capita, the secret war was bloodier than the Somme. ![]() Robbie is talking about the female secret agents of Britain’s SOE, who were charged by Winston Churchill to “Set Europe ablaze” with espionage, sabotage, and organized resistance in occupied Europe.
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