![]() ![]() Clifford Douglas, also of the War Office, who’s not supposed to know about her mission worse, he’s staying at the Grand Hotel, as well. Also on the train, to Fiona’s consternation, is Capt. ![]() On the way to Paris, she meets charming, mischievous, elegantly attired Lady Gresha MacLeod, aka the notorious Mata Hari, who, it turns out, is planning a Parisian rendezvous with Fredricks. The first clue that things won’t go as planned appears when readers learn that Fiona has stuffed her suitcase with a variety of costumes, wigs, and hats. Instead, Fiona is to be pretty much herself: a young, recent widow-never mind it was her ex-husband who succumbed to German mustard gas-visiting her great-aunt in Paris, where she’ll be staying at the Grand Hotel. She’s not to use disguises, nor is she to establish contact with Fredricks. Reginald “Blinker” Hall are clear: She’s to trail Fredrick Fredricks, a famed South African hunter, acclaimed journalist, and deadly spy for Germany known as the Black Panther. ![]() It’s 1917, and Fiona Figg has recently returned from her first reconnaissance assignment in Ravenswick Abbey, where she went undercover as the fictional Dr. Oliver offers another whimsical World War I espionage escapade featuring a file clerk/spy-in-training working for British Intelligence. ![]()
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