Spitfire, M. L. Huie
Spitfire, M. L. Huie
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Spitfire
A Livy Nash Mystery

Author: M. L. Huie

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020

Synopsis

A new historical mystery for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope series and Kate Quinn’s The Alice NetworkHow far would you go for vengeance?It’s V-E Day 1946 in London. World War II is long over, and former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink before noon. She went to war to kill Nazis. Dropped behind enemy lines as a courier, she quickly became one of the toughest agents in France. But her war ended with betrayal and the execution of the man she loved. Now, Livy spends her days proofreading a demeaning advice column for little ladies at home and her nights alone with black market vodka.But everything changes when she meets the infamous Ian Fleming. The man who will create the world’s most sophisticated secret agent has an agenda of his own and sends Livy back to France with one task: track down the traitor who killed the only man she ever loved. Livy jumps at the chance, heading back to Paris undercover as a journalist. But the City of Lights is teeming with spies, and Livy quickly learns just how much the game has changed. With enemies on every corner and ever-shifting alliances, she will have to learn to fight a new war if she wants to conquer the past once and for all.

About M. L. Huie

M. L. Huie is a writer, teacher, and actor. In addition to working ten years as a features journalist, he has written several plays that have been performed throughout the US and in the UK. Like Livy Nash, he loves the northwest of England and has a Yank’s appreciation for a good Lancashire hot pot. Spitfire is his first novel.

About Justine Eyre

Justine Eyre is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has recorded over three-hundred titles. Named a 2013 AudioFile Best Voice, she has won an Audie Award and multiple Earphones Awards. Classically trained and multilingual, she performs on stage, television, and film and has had roles in King Lear and The Crucible, on Two and a Half Men and Mad Men, and in multiple indie-circuit films.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Literary

I loved this first in a new series featuring a gutsy but imperfect heroine set just after WWII in London and Paris. SPITFIRE is as thrilling as the fighter planes themselves, replete with Ian Fleming, spies, unpredictable political landscapes swirling with post-war intrigue, and a taut narrative tha......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

Livy Nash spent her war as a courier dropped in France to be part of the Resistance. She had many hard times culminating with being arrested by the Nazis, imprisoned, and tortured. She watched the man she had come to love stood up in front of a firing squad and shot just before a shell hit that kept......more

Goodreads review by Karren

When everyone is celebrating V-E Day in London, former British spy Olivia Nash is having her third glass of vodka and drowning her sorrows. During the war Livy was a Special Operations Executive and she and Bulldog were the most sort after agents in France. The war ended with a terrible betrayal by......more

Quotes

“Satisfying to the very end…A good book and the start of a good series.” New York Journal of Books

“A deftly penned and simply riveting read with more unexpected plot twists and turns than a Disneyland roller coaster.” Midwest Book Review

“Narrator Justine Eyre delivers this fascinating story set just after WWII…Eyre’s British accent gives former spy Olivia Nash and spymaster Ian Fleming the necessary gravitas. She also handles the accents of a host of German, French, American, and Russian operatives…Eyre deftly offers a fast-paced, suspenseful series of events and a thrilling conclusion.” AudioFile

“Huie does an excellent job dramatizing events in the early days of the cold war. Vibrant characters, international intrigue, gritty action, and a wittily acerbic Ian Fleming, too—who could ask for more?” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“An old-fashioned mystery shot through with tragedy; for aficionados of the glamour and romance of spy craft.” Kirkus Reviews

“Offer[s] a look at the fragile psyches of veterans in England and France, as well as the inner turmoil of war heroes who’ve seen too much but feel morally bound to fight on.” Booklist

“Huie’s taut spy thriller takes the reader to a Britain and France where the wounds of war are both deep and fresh…An auspicious debut.” Charlie Lovett, author of The Lost Book of the Grail

“Huie writes with dry, cracking wit and unflinching heart…Filled with intrigue, betrayal, heartache, and danger, Spitfire is a debut not to be missed.” Meghan Holloway, author of Once More Unto the Breach

“Gritty and glamorous, Spitfire races through the streets of post-war London and Paris in a twisting story of intrigue and betrayal…Livy Nash is exactly my kind of heroine.” Julia Kelly, author of The Light Over London

“Meticulously researched with a twisty, compelling plot and a heroine that you root for from the first page, Spitfire combines all the elements of great historical fiction.” Jane Healey, author of The Beantown Girls

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