{"product_id":"trapeze-paperback","title":"Trapeze - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Mawer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest seller \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out--she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, which trains agents to operate in occupied Europe. Drawn into this strange, secret world at the age of nineteen, she finds herself undergoing commando training, attending a \"school for spies,\" and ultimately, one autumn night, parachuting into France from an RAF bomber to join the WORDSMITH resistance network.\u003cbr\u003e But there's more to Marian's mission than meets the eye of her SOE controllers; her mission has been hijacked by another secret organization that wants her to go to Paris and persuade a friend--a research physicist--to join the Allied war effort. The outcome could affect the whole course of the war.\u003cbr\u003e A fascinating blend of fact and fiction, \u003ci\u003eTrapeze \u003c\/i\u003eis both an old-fashioned adventure story and a modern exploration of a young woman's growth into adulthood. There is violence, and there is love. There is death and betrayal, deception and revelation. But above all there is Marian Sutro, an ordinary young woman who, like her real-life counterparts in the SOE, did the most extraordinary things at a time when the ordinary was not enough.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Mawer \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling novel \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His previous novels\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003einclude \u003ci\u003eThe Fall \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Judas, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Mendel's Dwarf \u003c\/i\u003e(long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). English by birth, he has made\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eItaly his home for more than thirty years. www.simonmawer.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53504550895981,"sku":"9781635425079","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/lsqtrDwZUj9781635425079.webp?v=1783018602","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/trapeze-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}