TY - BOOK AU - Thynne, Jane, TI - Solitaire T2 - Clara Vine SN - 9781471155796 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London : PB - Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., KW - Vine, Clara KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fiction KW - Women spies KW - Germany KW - Fiction KW - Spies KW - Paris (France) KW - Paris KW - fast KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - History KW - 1918-1945 KW - Spy fiction KW - Suspense fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Formerly CIP; Also issued online N2 - June 1940: the first summer of the war. Berlin is being bombed and nightly blackouts suffocate the city. Then France falls and a shadow descends. A shadow has fallen over Clara Vine's own life, too. She is an English citizen in a country that hates her. Virulent anti-British propaganda is everywhere. Then she is summoned to meet the Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who has decided that Clara should adopt a new role - as his spy - and that she must go to Paris on a mission. Much as she dislikes the idea, Clara realises this might be the chance to find an escape route to England - but Goebbels has other ideas ER -