One Woman’s War: A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny

Wells (Sisters of the Resistance) conveys the shadowy world of MI5 through the eyes of Victoire Patricia Evelyn Bennett, aka Paddy, an upper-class British woman, and Friedl Stöttinger, an Austrian-born double agent. Spanning London, Lisbon, and Berlin, Wells’s unusually glamorous take on World War II has a cast of fabulous characters, including real icons of the era such as Dylan Thomas, Dennis Wheatley, and Commander Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels. Paddy and Friedl’s lives are filled with adventure and romance as they navigate the male-dominated world of MI5, enjoy their eclectic relationships, and frequent fashionable London clubs. Traveling in these separate but parallel worlds, Paddy and Friedl’s lives draw ever closer, finally colliding in Operation Mincemeat, a true—and intriguingly madcap—WWII stunt engineered by the British.