Trapeze: A Novel

A propulsive novel of World War II espionage from Simon Mawer, author of the New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize Finalist The Glass Room.

One young woman. A secret mission into occupied Paris. The race to secure the ultimate nuclear weapon before the enemy does.

Barely out of school, nineteen-year-old Marian Sutro is recruited by Britain’s Special Operations Executive for one extraordinary reason: she is fluently, natively French. Plunged into a shadowed world of commando drills, ciphe...