(This article first appeared on Penguin UK’s Most Wanted crime/thriller website in March 2009.)
I listened, spellbound. It had been nearly 64 years since wartime secret agent Pearl Cornioley’s parachute jump into Nazi-occupied France, but her recollection of that night in September 1943 held me mesmerized.
“It was a static line, and consequently as I dropped I could feel the little bits of string cracking. Pop, pop … pop, pop, pop, until finally I felt the shock of the parachute opening itself …
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