![]() ![]() Readers who have never met Maisie, can you give us a brief summary? Speaking to Jane Ammeson, she talks about An American Agent and how her own past was an impetus for her series. ![]() On a multi-city tour, Winspear will be in Chicago for a book signing on April 4. ![]() Peppered with excerpts from real broadcasts and reporting at the time. In to conduct an undercover investigation – her presence requested by a manįrom the US Department of Justice, Mark Scott, who had previously saved her life Wrought on the city, Saxon is found dead in her rooms. ![]() Her experience of seeing the death and destruction that the bombings have Maisie and her friend, Priscilla are volunteer ambulance drivers, and on one run they are accompanied by an American war correspondent, Catherine Saxon.įollowing her late-night broadcast to the US, where she describes Day after day, night after night for months on end, hundreds of German bombers would fly across the Channel to wreak havoc. Jacqueline Winspear, author of The American Agent, the 15 th book in her Maisie Dobbs’ series, transports us to early September 1940, as Adolf Hitler unleashed his Blitzkrieg or lighting attack on London and other United Kingdom cities, an intensive attack already used successfully in Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and France to enable an invasion to take place. ![]()
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