An RAF airdrop of supplies was ambushed by the Gestapo, and many members of the Resistance have been killed. It soon becomes clear that the network has been betrayed. When contact with Belvedere, one of the Resistance networks in the Jura region of Eastern France, is lost, Elizabeth Maxwell, is sent back to the region to find the head of the network, her husband Guy Maxwell. Preparations for the D-Day invasion are well advanced. After a few minutes, he heard the soft click of the door latch.”įebruary 1944. The room was in total darkness and his senses were heightened. He cocked his gun, pressed his body flat against the wall next to the door, and waited. Then he heard it again, right outside the door. The moon was on the wane, wrapped in the soft gauze of snowfall and it wasn’t easy to see. He reached for his gun and quietly looked out through the window. This time it was closer and his instinct told him it wasn’t the wolves. Under normal circumstances it would have meant nothing, but in the silence of the forest every sound was magnified. “Sometime during the early hours of the morning, he awoke again, this time with a start.
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