Restless: A NovelA masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation. Now a major TV movie adaptation by The Sundance Channel and the BBC starring Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell and Rufus Sewell. It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a mysterious connection to Kolia, Eva's murdered brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII. Three decades on and Eva has buried her dangerous history. She is now Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow, living in a picturesque Cotswold village. No one, not even her daughter Ruth, knows her real identity. But once a spy, always a spy. Sally has far too many secrets, and she has no one to trust. Before it is too late, she must confront the demons of her past. This time though she can't do it alone, she needs Ruth's help. Restless is a thrilling espionage novel set during the Second World War and a haunting portrait of a female spy. |
Contents
Section 16 | 186 |
Section 17 | 190 |
Section 18 | 197 |
Section 19 | 215 |
Section 20 | 226 |
Section 21 | 254 |
Section 22 | 263 |
Section 23 | 276 |
Section 9 | 97 |
Section 10 | 107 |
Section 11 | 124 |
Section 12 | 141 |
Section 13 | 155 |
Section 14 | 160 |
Section 15 | 179 |
Section 24 | 282 |
Section 25 | 294 |
Section 26 | 313 |
Section 27 | 325 |
Section 28 | 326 |
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