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*Starred Review* In 1941, Maggie Hope, the first female agent to be dropped behind enemy lines, is sent to bug the home office of Clara Hess, the high-ranking Nazi operative who’s also Maggie’s estranged mother. But without her knowledge, Maggie also is intended to serve as bait to bring in Hess, whose recent operations in England—intended to kill Winston Churchill and to kidnap Princess Elizabeth—were foiled largely by Maggie. In Berlin, she also meets nurse Elise Hess, the half-sister she never knew she had, who has just been stunned by viewing Operation Compassionate Death, the mass killings of children with disabilities. When an opportunity to stay in Berlin beyond the completion of her mission presents itself, Maggie seizes the chance to gather additional intelligence, putting herself and her contact in the German Resistance at risk. Historical reality makes the third in this meticulously researched series darker in tone but just as compellingly readable as its predecessors (Mr. Churchill’s Secretary and Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, both 2012); viewing WWII through Maggie’s exploits provides an intriguingly human perspective on the era. --Michele Leber
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“You’ll be [Maggie Hope’s] loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes.”—
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- Series: Maggie Hope
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (May 14, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345536738
- ISBN-13: 978-0345536730
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.2 x 7.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Epub His Majesty's Hope: A Maggie Hope Mystery
Susan Elia MacNeal introduced us to Maggie Hope in Mr. Churchill's Secretary, and I for one was captivated from the start. How could I NOT be? The heroine is an independent young woman, a brilliant mathematician, living through a dramatic time, and putting herself in harm's way for plausible reasons. As was evident from Princess Elizabeth's Spy, the character has her own arc, coming to terms with her family's history, and the author does not always give her easy choices. So the moment I saw the imminent release of His Majesty's Hope, I practically shouted, "That's for me!" Loud enough to disturb the cat, and to earn one of those grumbly, "You woke me up" cat glares.
In His Majesty's Hope, Maggie has finally earned the right (and the skill) to be dropped behind enemy lines, the first woman spy to do so. The job is supposedly a quick one, in-and-out in four days, until an irresistible opportunity presents itself to get her hands on more valuable data. We also hear what's happening from two additional viewpoints: David, Maggie's friend in London, whose parents are pressuring him to marry without realizing David is a closet homosexual; and Elise, a nurse in Berlin who learns terrible things about what the Nazis are doing to the children under her care.
It's a good setup for a story, and gives us plenty of opportunity to admire the author's character-drawing ability. Since we readers know the outcome of the war, there's even more drama ("No no don't get on that bus!").
Young Maggie Hope is fresh from her training as an agent for Britain's Special Operations Executive and her mission is to be parachuted behind enemy lines to Germany, where she is to drop off some radio equipment for underground resistance forces and bug the offices of German spy Clara Hess. It's supposed to be a quick, four-day mission, but when Maggie is offered a job by a top Nazi, she can't resist staying so that she can possibly find out useful German war intelligence.
Meanwhile, there are side plots involving Clara Hess's daughter Elise, a nurse, who finds out about the Nazis' secret program to euthanize those with mental and developmental disorders, Elise's friend Frieda, who is married to a Jewish doctor about to be sent "to the east" and, back in London, Maggie's friend David's seemingly doomed gay love affair.
Maggie's spying brings her into contact with Elise and their plots mesh, culminating in a tension-filled attempt to escape Germany.
It's hard to know what to think of this story. MacNeal's strengths are that she writes well and knows how to keep a plot moving along at a good clip. But it doesn't move along fast enough to disguise the weaknesses, such as one-dimensional characters, and an absolutely ludicrous plot that reminded me very much of that pot-boiler movie from 1992, Shining Through, in which Melanie Griffith plays a spy in World War II Berlin and has some experiences remarkably like Maggie's.
I have to admit that I had fun reading the book at least half the time.
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