DRAGONFLY

In 1942, a team of five young Americans—two women and three men—were hand picked by the OSS (U.S. intelligence agency) to infiltrate the Nazi stronghold of German-occupied France. Their base of operations— Paris, the city of light, gone dark. Their mission is simple: they are to spy for the Allies while operating in plain sight of the enemy, thus the reason for the group’s choice of codename. Dragonflies are notable for their 360 degree visual radius that allows them to detect threats from all directions and elude capture, or so they believe true of themselves when they volunteer as civilians for their assignments. Known as the “man in brown,” the spymaster responsible for this disparate assortment of foreign agents, believes he has put together the perfect package to insert into hostile territory, but he has reason to doubt the capability of a fencer of foil, dress designer, fly fisherman, civil engineer, and track-and-field coach to emulate the dragonfly’s escape artistry when they wind up immediately in the crosshairs of the enemy’s gunsights. Interspersed in the action is the unbreakable bond the young Americans forge between themselves— strangers who know one another only by their codenames of Labrador, Liverwort, Limpet, Lodestar, and Lapwing—without possessing a shred of information about the people they willingly risk their lives for.