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02537aam a2200313 i 4500 001 750703EEBB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 180517s2017||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1432845713 020 $a 9781432845711 040 $d IaEs $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Quinn, Kate Karyus, $e author. 245 14 $a The Alice Network / $c Kate Quinn. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Farmington Hills, Mich : $b Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2017. 300 $a 701 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two womenâa female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947âare brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. 1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, code name Alice, the "queen of spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads. 541 $d 20230927. 650 4 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Underground movements $v Fiction. 650 $a Women spies $z England $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Large print. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 4 $a War stories. 655 4 $a Spy stories. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20240125010351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=750703EEBB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search