Somewhere in France

Captain Henri Ravignac thought he'd found the perfect French wife. Her language was flawless, her manners impeccable, her knowledge of French culture beyond reproach. He never suspected that Marie Gessler was German until the moment she betrayed him, stealing classified documents and vanishing into enemy territory. When the Great War erupts, Marie's talents make her invaluable to German intelligence. Posing as a French noblewoman traveling with the papers of the Countess d'Aurillac, she slips behind enemy lines where her life depends on maintaining a facade so perfect that discovery means death. But what happens when the spy begins to question which identity is real? Richard Harding Davis, who reported from the Western Front itself, crafted this novel in the heat of the war, capturing the paranoid atmosphere where everyone is a suspect and loyalty is currency. The result is both period artifact and enduring thriller: a story about the impossibility of truly knowing anyone, and the particular cruelty of loving someone who has made you their quarry.