A British military aircraft crashes in Nazi-occupied France. The pilot Maddie and passenger Julie are best friends. The first girl has a chance to survive, but the second failed her mission even before it began: almost immediately, Julie—known by the code name Verity—is arrested by the Gestapo. As a secret agent captured on enemy territory, she faces a terrible choice: reveal her assignment or face a cruel execution. And Verity begins to give testimony—braiding real facts, fiction, and emotions as she describes her past, clinging to life and to her last hope to return home in every scrap of paper.
A #1 New York Times bestseller and an Edgar Award winner, “Code Name—Verity,” is a bitter, desperate, and painfully touching narrative about fear and courage, determination and survival—and what true friends will do to save their loved ones.