Honest law enforcement people don’t yet believe the threat. The local police, the FBI, studio staff all have Nazi loyalists. Liesl and Agent Thirteen work together, but few others can be trusted. Lewis hires other spies, notably shadowy Agent Thirteen, a former private investigator and Pinkerton detective. There she learns of plans to oust American Jews, kill Jewish Hollywood producers, and install Nazi loyalists to take over Hollywood movie productions. Liesl volunteers as the all-around staffer at a local German office, where she fits right in-tall, blonde, able to speak and write fluent German. He sees the Nazi infiltration into Southern California and tries to thwart it. Liesl’s widowed German mother runs the house and watches Liesl’s children.ĭesperate to find work, Liesl hires on as a spy for powerful real-life lawyer Leon Lewis. Liesl’s brother, a newly hired cop, has joined a pro-Nazi group. Liesl’s Jewish friends and neighbors are mistreated by local shops and at school. Hitler is on the rise, and his influence has reached California. Liesl’s husband and the father of their two small children recently walked out, leaving behind a goodbye note and a week’s pay. All studios are laying off, and MGM lets her go. It's a revealing and touching triumph of courage, love, and hope against all odds.In summer 1933, beautiful and talented Liesl Weiss works for MGM as a typist and stenographer. The result is more than a history lesson. It opens a window into the hearts and the minds of women who take on new roles and risk everything for love, freedom, or just plain adventure. "Code Name Nanette" is a quirky, sensual, character-driven love story that honors the British and American female resistance fighters in France during World War II, who loved and fought behind enemy lines as intensely as their male counterparts, but whose names and achievements remain largely unheralded to this day. INSPIRED BY REAL WOMEN WHO HELPED SAVE THE WORLD. THEIR MISSION: Gather intelligence behind Nazi lines in World War II.īUT THE LINES BLUR AND THE WAR HEATS UP when they are forced to choose between their hearts and their duty. He'll never see women, young or old, the same way again. She still chain smokes, drinks her whisky straight, and loves telling steamy stories. Joe Parker's search for his grandfather leads him to a former spy who worked with his grandmother in France fifty years ago during World War II. During the war I was a spy for the British and helped save the world. The story-telling in this book is amazing." -Ingrid Hall "THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF HISTORY, HUMOR, AND ROMANCE." -Books and Beyond Fifty Shades "WARS ARE NOT WON BY RESPECTABLE METHODS." - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American Spy in World War II. Genre: Contemporary,Books,Romance,Fiction & Literature,.
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