Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal Patricia Highsmith The Willow Pool and 'Woodchuck'

The Willow Pool and 'Woodchuck'

Napier can't wait to invest

the man with tflat cap and tsliding rule

set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica

So he travels to Zurich

Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal Patricia Highsmith The Willow Pool and 'Woodchuck'RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION AND BETRAYAL Occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side street. She is Mathilde Carr, codenamed 'the Cat', later known as Agent Victoire. She is charismatic, daring, and a spy; her story is one of heroism and survival against the odds. These are the darkest days for France, half occupied by Nazi Germany, half governed by the collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain,