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The Brass Compass

By: Ellen Butler
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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A beautiful American spy flees into the night. On her own, she must live by her wits to evade capture and make it to the safety of the Allied forces.

Lily Saint James grew up traveling the European continent, learning languages as she went. In 1938, her mother's abrupt death brings her back home to Washington, DC, and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lily comes to the attention of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Her knowledge of German, French, and Italian makes her the perfect OSS Agent, and her quick thinking places her as a nanny in the household of an important German Army Colonel, where she is able to gather intelligence for the Allies.

After her marketplace contact goes missing, she makes a late-night trip to her secondary contact only to find him under interrogation by the SS. When he commits suicide, she flees into the frigid winter night carrying false identification papers that are now dangerous and a mini film cartridge with vital strategic information. In order to survive, Lily must make it out of Germany, into the hands of Allied-controlled France, through a path fraught with peril.

©2017 Ellen Butler (P)2018 Tantor
Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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I really enjoyed this audiobook. Having recently listened to "Code Name, Lise", I read the details of his book and thought it would be similar. Iit is, and just as enjoyable. It's gripping from start to finish. A definate 5 stars from me.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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The narrator has won awards and high praise. Maybe she's done excellent work elsewhere. In The Brass Compass she had an irritating habit of emphasising the ends of some of her words, and this carried over from the heroine's voice to some of the other characters. It was very distracting. Some of the accents she did well, but not enough. As for the story, the heroine carefully explained her thinking, before answering anyone. Usually there was a short lecture on a war topic. I read a lot of WWII fiction, but avoid romanticised novels. This one preached a lot about the war, what was awful about it, what happened etc. If you read war fiction, you of course expect some explanations, but this was over the top, and made dull reading out of something horrific and tragic. And it also romanticised the war. True horror and suffering was barely touched. The ending was predictable and, in fact, I don't feel I've been told a story, just rambling memories of events. Very disappointing. I'm glad to be able to move on to something meatier.

I was shocked by how bad this is

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