The Brass Compass, Ellen Butler
The Brass Compass, Ellen Butler
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The Brass Compass

Author: Ellen Butler

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2018


Synopsis

A beautiful American spy flees into the night. On her own, she must live by her wits to evade capture and make it to the safety of the Allied forces.

Lily Saint James grew up traveling the European continent, learning languages as she went. In 1938, her mother's abrupt death brings her back home to Washington, D.C., and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lily comes to the attention of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Her knowledge of German, French, and Italian makes her the perfect OSS Agent, and her quick thinking places her as a nanny in the household of an important German Army Colonel, where she is able to gather intelligence for the Allies. After her marketplace contact goes missing, she makes a late-night trip to her secondary contact only to find him under interrogation by the SS. When he commits suicide, she flees into the frigid winter night carrying false identification papers that are now dangerous and a mini film cartridge with vital strategic information. In order to survive, Lily must make it out of Germany, into the hands of Allied-controlled France, through a path fraught with peril.

About Ellen Butler

Ellen Butler is the internationally bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series. Her experiences working on Capitol Hill and at a medical association in Washington DC inspired the mystery-action series. Multiple books in the series have hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists in the US and abroad. Book critics call the Karina Cardinal mysteries "intelligent escapism" and "unputdownable adventures that will take readers on an electrifying yet light-hearted and humorous journey." Butler is also the author of the award-winning historical suspense novel The Brass Compass. The Brass Compass has won multiple awards for historical fiction, including a 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award, a 2018 IndieReader Discovery Award, and a 2019 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal. Ellen is also the author of the award-winning Love, California Style romance series. "Sexy, sassy, with a side of funny," the Love, California Style series is for those who enjoy Hallmark Hall of Fame-type romances. She won The Romance Reviews Readers' Choice Award in 2015 for her novel Planning for Love.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on June 04, 2019

This is my first book by Ellen Butler. The story was exciting so I definitely will read more of her books. Our protagonist is Lily St. James. She went to school in Switzerland and England. She had travelled throughout Europe prior to World War II. She is recruited by the Civilian OSS and sent to Ger......more

Goodreads review by E.A. on July 02, 2019

The Brass Compass by Ellen Butler was a spy like historical fiction romance, that kept me reading. Not my first read by this author, so I knew going in I was in for something not only well written, but well researched. I was not disappointed, this book was that and more. Now I will say that there wa......more

Goodreads review by heather agnew on April 03, 2018

Lilly St. James starts out well and is interesting for about 2/3rds of the book, it then moves into the realm of not very likely. Enjoyable but suspend disbelief.......more

Goodreads review by Micalah on November 16, 2022

I first came across Ellen’s book Operation Blackbird which was actually book two in the Brass Compass series but I’m the type that always likes to check out previous books in a series before just in case they are interconnected. Book number one was this book The Brass Compass and the premise of it w......more

Goodreads review by Sara on June 30, 2019

The Brass Compass by Ellen Butler a four-star read that will help you find true north. I am not usually a fan of historical stories, but this one intrigued me. Lily Saint James is such a complex character, she makes the novel for me, if she wasn’t so well written then this wouldn’t be such a good st......more