Book description
Women Air Force Service Pilot and undercover agent Pucci Lewis did not
want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen,
an imprisoned countess-counteragent suspected of triple-dealing and
possibly putting our country's future at risk? Buchanan-Dineen was a
real-life figure who led a German spy ring that operated in Detroit
during WWII. Confronted by the FBI, she agreed to act as a counteragent
helping to nail the other ring members. Jailed along with her
cohorts-“for her own protection”-her rancor ran deep. Enter Pucci,
landing in a B-24 bomber at the Willow Run aircraft factory. Late for a
meeting, she takes a shortcut and stumbles upon a corpse. Agent Dante
appears and reveals the dead man to be a German spy. A fellow Willow Run
employee, Otto Renner, had been under surveillance and the FBI suspects
a link between Renner and the imprisoned countess. Dante con-vinces
Pucci to become a sister inmate to see what she can learn. Then she
infiltrates a posh women's club where Buchanan-Dineen, billed as a
“charm con-sultant,” once lectured. Could the club really be the center
of a spy ring? In 1943, Pucci Lewis, a WASP (Women's Airforce Service
Pilot), is recruited by the FBI to ferret out information from a
counterspy jailed in Detroit. Pucci, who is part OSS-trained spy, part
flag-waving American, and part naïve young woman, is a delight, but
readers will find it difficult to keep this debut mystery's characters
and plot line straight. Despite this minor annoyance, Liesche is a
writer to watch. She lives in Marin County, CA. Margit Liesche is the
daughter of Hungarian refugees who arrived in the States in 1947
following years of missionary service in war-torn central China. Weaned
on her parents' tales of adventure and escape, intrigue is part of her
DNA. Margit lives in Marin County CA.
