Book Synopsis

A Mystic’s daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War.

A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front.

A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity.

An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books.

Each will make a journey that changes history.

The constellations will force the Mystic’s daughter to make an impossible choice. To remain at her harp as the shadow of the war looms again – or join the top-secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Bābouli to her Sufi father, Madeleine to the Gestapo, a lone mission to Occupied Paris promises to be the most hazardous of World War Two.

Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with tigers, zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, angels, assassins, chessmen, cyanide, beetles, butterflies and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India and Latin America, Codename: Madeleine is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry and resistance

About the Author

Barnaby Jameson is a counter-terrorist barrister. He has appeared in the most notorious terrorist cases of the century including plots to overthrow governments and assassinate politicians as well as terrorist bombings in the UK and overseas. His work has brought him into contact with modern-day successors of the Special Operations Executive. CODENAME: MADELEINE has a global canvas centred on France where Barnaby studied at university in Provence before reading history (haphazardly) at Cambridge. Away from court, Barnaby is found kitesurfing in the Atlantic off Essaouira, Morocco, or in the wine-dark waters of the Aegean. CODENAME: MADELEINE is Barnaby’s first book in ‘The Resistance’ series.

Disclaimer – Thank you to the publishers for sending me a gifted copy of this book.