The Darkest Hour
My name is Lucie Blaise.
I am sixteen years old.
I have many aliases, but I am none of the girls you see.
What I am is the newest recruit of Covert Ops.
And we are here to take down Hitler.
SUMMARY
After the Nazis killed her brother on the North African front, Lucie Blaise volunteers at the Office of Strategic Services in Washington to do her part for the war effort. Only instead of a desk job at the OSS, she is tapped to join the Clandestine Operations -- a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls. Six months ago, Lucie was deployed to German-occupied France to gather intelligence and eliminate Nazi targets.
Her current mission: Track down and interrogate a Nazi traitor about a weapon that threatens to wipe out all of Western Europe. Then find and dismantle the weapon before Hitler detonates it. But the deeper she investigates, the more danger she’s in. Because the fate of the free world hangs in the balance, and trusting the wrong person could cause millions of lives to be lost. Including her own.
Published by Scholastic Press
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“The novel passes the Bechdel test with flying colors.”
— School Library Journal
“Thrills, action, and the moral certainty of fighting Nazis drive this thriller.”
— Kirkus Reviews
South Carolina Junior Book Award
2017 ILA Young Adult’s Choices Reading List
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