Rosie Ewing Spy Thrillers
5 primary works
Book 1
It is the summer of 1943, and Rosie Ewing is leaving on her second mission to German-occupied France. She's a Special Operations Executive agent and a radio operator. Her brief is to set up a new network in Rouen, where the one agent still at large is suspected of having betrayed his colleagues. She's to be dropped off by a gunboat in a remote cove on the Brittany coast. She then has to get to Paris by train, carrying forged papers, a radio transceiver, and more than a million francs in cash. Terrifyingly vulnerable, she knows the dangers of a second's carelessness and the consequences of crumbling under the force of Gestapo torture.
Book 2
Spring 1944. Rosie is a pianist or radio operator, in Special Operations Executive and is returning to German-occupied France. Carrying only a radio, money, a pistol and two cyanide capsules, she must organize immediate para-drops of weaponry knowing the agent who'll meet her may be a traitor.
Book 3
In France in 1944, SOE agent Rosie Ewing has been shot by the Gestapo on her way to a death camp, having run off as a decoy in order that her fellow agent Lise can make an escape. One of them must survive in order to tell London of double agent Andre Marcheval's activities. Left for dead, Rosie is rescued by two men of the Maquis and taken to a safe house. Here, as she recuperates, she begins to form her plans to reduce the threat posed by Marcheval, and more immediately, to get in touch with London and inform them of her current situation. She learns that Marcheval's father has a factory some way away in which rocket casings are being manufactured. Now she must not only find Marcheval and eliminate him if necessary, but also stop these potential bombs from being made.
Book 4
SOE agent Rosie Ewing, who has recently survived a miraculous escape from being deported to a death camp and has been flown home, is looking forward to seeing her lover, Ben Quarry, who has heard she is dead. However, as she returns, two SOE agents are arrested and held in Paris by the Gestapo - or someone worse. As Rosie knows these agents, she is sent back to try and rescue them. She starts with tracking down Jacqueline, a woman she recruited for some SOE work, but who has Nazi boyfriends. Jacqueline has moved to Paris with Gerhardt Clausen, a high-ranking member of the SD. When Rosie finds her, she warns her that when the war is over (and all the signs are that this will be soon), Jacqueline faces severe treatment for having collaborated. Rosie offers her SOE protection, if she will introduce her to Gerhardt, whom she has heard is interrogating Yvette and Guillame, the two SOE agents...Gripping and authentic, SINGLE TO PARIS concludes the four-volume Rosie Ewing series in a emphatic way.
Book 5
When Rosie Ewing (wartime secret agent) read Alexander Fullerton's four novels based on her adventures in German- occupied France, she wrote to him suggesting that he might like to hear the story of her first mission, when she'd parachuted into moonlit countryside near Cahors and made her way down to Toulouse to join the SOE network as a radio-operator and courier. Rosie was twenty-four at the time, and the expected life-span of a radio-operator was six weeks. A group, codenamed Countryman, was briefed by London to get a certain German out of Vichy's hands. What they didn't know was that they themselves were being sold out to the Gestapo. Betrayal was the dread every agent lived with every minute of every day and night, but Rosie lived to tell the tale...