Coco Channel calls!

The Last Hope (Maggie Hope #11) by Susan Elia MacNeal 

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Maggie is home, safe at last with John Sterling, her ex-fiancé. But that relationship’s put on hold when she’s called into the Special Operations Executive by Kim Philby, head of the Iberian Section of MI6

The writings on the wall for Germany. The allies are pushing through. Europe’s already been carved up at the Tehran Conference. 

The German Generals want to negotiate a seperate peace with Churchill. Coco Channel is calling in markers for her lover, Nazi, Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage. Coco has asked for “Paige Kelly” that is Maggie, to be the conduit. Maggie owes her! The meeting will take place in so called neutral Spain in Madrid, a hotbed of spies—Fascists, Nazis, and Communists as well as the Americans and Brits.

Maggie though has been tasked by something even more dangerous. She’s to assassinate the scientist, Weber Heisenberg, who is believed to be working on an Atomic Bomb. Maggie however decides that if Germans are not in the race she won’t kill him. Don’t forget Maggie was a brilliant mathematician before the war. First she must somehow meet and talk protons and heavy water  with Herr Heisenberg, trying to discover his progress thus far.

Coco meanwhile has a letter from the Generals for Maggie to personally handover to Churchill.

However the handover becomes complicated when Maggie’s associate, Agent Connor Sullivan, is poisoned.

There’s danger everywhere and Maggie has no idea who’s behind it. A game of cat and mouse ensues. Maggie’s life is in the balance.

A fitting end to a highly explosive series. I was captured not only by the action but intrigued by the names dropped throughout the story. Kim Philby, Antony Blunt! Hmm!

A Random House-Ballantine  ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.