Lucie is engaging as a heroine, and The Darkest Hour is not short on action.
While Covert Ops itself may be fictional, the historical inspiration that led to its creation is real and fascinating. However, the author’s note at the end suggests fact behind the fancy, with a solid list of sources for further reading. Much disbelief was suspended in imagining a largely autonomous group of teenage spies and assassins, fighting their way across France with an arsenal that would make Q proud. Richmond’s Covert Ops is fictional and almost fanciful in its elements.
But reports of a mole within Covert Ops complicates the investigation and leads Lucie to wonder just who she can trust in France. On Lucie’s first mission, she stumbles across information about a new and terrifying weapon that threatens all of Europe, and is charged with tracking it down and dismantling it. The young women of Covert Ops work undercover in German-occupied France, alongside the Resistance, spying, interrogating, sabotaging, and engaging in the occasional spot of assassination. She’s recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, who are impressed by her fluent French, and placed in a multinational espionage and sabotage unit for girls called Covert Ops. Sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is devastated when her brother is killed in World War II and volunteers to do her part in the war effort.
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