Scaife was out, she visited her home and convinced her maid Beatrice to let her search for the book, telling her that her mistress was a traitor. Scaife's group and learned she was in possession of a book containing a list of all the British Nazi sympathizers. Perry gave Juliet another mission, to pretend to be a young woman named Iris Carter-Jenkins in order to get close to another known Nazi sympathizer, Mrs. Toby convinced Dolly he did not know her. Juliet was frightened one day when one of the sympathizers, Dolly, caught her in the apartment building's hallway talking to Toby by the elevator. Juliet developed a crush on her boss Perry, and was increasingly frustrated by his lack of romantic interest in her. MI5 had rented two adjoining apartments for this project, and Juliet, her boss Perry, and the sound technician Cyril worked out of one, while Toby worked out of the other, interviewing the sympathizers in a bugged room. She was to listen to recordings made by another agent, Godfrey Toby, pretending to be a Nazi officer discussing plans with British Nazi sympathizers.

18-year-old Juliet had just lost her mother when she was recruited by an MI5 (British intelligence) agent named Miles Merton to work on a special project. She went to a coffee shop and realized she was being watched by a man with a limp and an umbrella. Walking through the park on her lunch break, she saw a man she knew from years before, Godfrey Toby, and approached him. In 1950, Juliet was a producer for children's programming at the BBC. As she drifted out of consciousness, she remembered events from her life. Sixty-year old Juliet Armstrong was just hit by a car and passersby were attempting first aid. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Atkinson, Kate.

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