Alice's Network

1947. Charlie St. Claire, expelled by her family from her native America for a misdemeanor bordering on a crime against decency, arrives in Europe hoping to find her cousin, who went missing in France during the German occupation. 1915. Young... Eva Gardiner is eager to fight the Germans, and unexpectedly, such an opportunity arises. The intelligence agency offers Eva to become an agent in the French territory occupied by the Boche. She will be mentored by the famous Alice, the queen of spies, who runs an intelligence network right under the noses of the Germans. Thirty years later, Eva, burdened by the weight of guilt for the betrayal that doomed Alice's Network, spends her days in a dilapidated London home, trying to drown her despair and pain in alcohol. But one day, her solitude is interrupted by an unfamiliar girl who utters a name that Eva hasn't heard in many years. And from that moment, the former spy and the former student begin a search that will lead them too far. The novel is based on the true story of the famous Alice's Network, the most effective intelligence organization that operated in France during World War I.