Explores the life and career of one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents, whose gathered intelligence and courage provided a significant contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II

Preface: Stories of trust and betrayal -- Borderlands -- Two weddings and a war -- Hungarian embraces -- Polish resistance -- A string of arrests -- Travels in an Opel -- Cold in Cairo -- Beautiful spy -- Our woman in Algiers -- A French occupation -- Battle of Vercors -- Switching allegiances -- Operation Liberté -- Mission impossible -- Second-class citizen -- Deep water -- Brutal end -- Epilogue: The afterlife of Christine Granville -- My search for Christine Granville : a note on sources -- Appendix I: Christine "preferred dogs to children" : a note on Christine Granville's childlessness -- Appendix II: She "murdered me" Muldowney said : a note on Dennis Muldowney