![]() Not only is it a sensitive one, still fresh in many people’s memory, but it is also a subject that many people know an awful lot about. This balance of fact and fiction is a tricky one, especially when dealing with a topic such as the Second World War. What I describe there did not actually happen, but like most of the book, it is a careful mixture of fact and fiction. ![]() ![]() Those two paragraphs summarise a substantial chunk of Chapter Four of my first novel, The Best of Our Spies. Once she could tell that it was safe, she crossed the road and entered the small park. Her destination was the narrow strip of park known as Twyford Gardens, which runs parallel to the northern side of Uxbridge Road. She turned right and, staying on the southern side of Uxbridge Road walked about four hundred yards in the direction of Acton. She was wearing a woollen scarf around her head and a raincoat described as being “closer to shabby than smart”. Just before eleven o’clock in the morning of the first Sunday in May 1941, a French woman in her mid-twenties emerged from Ealing Common station. The characters were lively and the pace brilliantly maintained.” “A cracking read which reminded me of John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps. The Best of Our Spies By Alex Gerlis The Best of Our SpiesĮspionage,adventure,drama and love by local author Alex Gerlis Related Linksįormer BBC journalist turned author Alex GerlisĪ, and .uk ![]()
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