Light of the Moon

by Elizabeth Buchan

First published 1991

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During the Second World War, Evelyn St John is recruited by the Special Operations Executive and parachuted into France to work undercover with resistance networks. Her mission requires false identities, clandestine communications and the constant risk of betrayal. Paul von Hoch, serving in German intelligence, is charged with finding enemy agents operating behind the lines.

When Evelyn and Paul meet, their attraction creates a conflict neither can separate from the war around them. Buchan draws on the history of SOE’s F Section and the experience of women sent into occupied France, combining espionage and resistance operations with a romance shaped by divided loyalties, collaboration and the lethal consequences of discovery.