Soon enough, Juliet herself is acting in the drama being staged to thwart the traitors in their midst. Shortly, she is drafted to transcribe recordings of a British agent, Godfrey, meeting Fifth Columnists, or Nazi sympathizers, who believe they’re meeting an agent of the Gestapo. In 1940, at 18, Juliet is tapped to work for MI5, Britain’s secret service, operating, ironically enough, out of a prison emptied of inmates. First among them is Juliet Armstrong, a poor, bright young woman, an orphan like so many plucky heroines in adventure tales. About a novel rife with references to Shakespeare, it’s probably fair to begin with Hamlet’s well-worn “All the world’s a stage.” And virtually all the people in the book are certainly players, donning and shedding identities throughout in service of the plot: spying England’s way through World War II.
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