City of Spies is an excellent story of espionage and subterfuge during the second world war by Mara Timon, all the more praiseworthy as this is the author's debut novel. The main character is Elisabeth de Mornay who works undercover for the Special Operations Executive which was set up to coordinate wartime activities by partisan groups in occupied countries and trained their operatives to help ans support these groups. The actions starts in France when Elisabeth's whereabouts are reported to the German occupiers by a man whose advances she had turned down. Luckily she spots what's happening and is able to escape. After the goods train she has stowed away on is bombed she heads into the countryside and immediately comes across a British pilot, Alexander Sinclair, whose plane was shot down and they team up to try and find a way back to Britain for Alex and another resistance group that will accept Elisabeth although she fears she might not be welcome as she's had a run of bad luck recently. This is definitely going to be a great read. I'm looking forward to reading the rest as wartime spy adventures are a genre I particularly enjoy and I'm sure many, many others do as well.