Elizabeth Wein

The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post), that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson) -- now with a new bonus chapter. October 11th, 1943 -- A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Edgar Award winner, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. This updated edition features a brand-new short story, essay from the author, a discussion guide, and more.

Code Name Verity Anniversary Edition

When I can't sleep, I lie in the dark imagining a concert and a flute and a younger girl standing ready to play, drawing breath with her fingers hovering over the keys and her lips over the mouthpiece of her flute-- a new girl, someone full of hope who can give new life to that music.

I believe that what makes us human is our enhanced ability for empathy. We don't just feel pity or happiness for other living people: we can feel pity and happiness for anyone who ever existed. Thousands of years of history, billions of other human lives, can inhabit the small space of each of our brains so we have consciousness enough to recognise it. It is a god-like quality, if you think about it... It is our superpower, and our tragedy... and you help to pass on the memory of those real people who fought and failed and triumphed in a war we must never repeat.

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