Historical Fiction writer Jane Healey describes the core of her fascinating new WW2 spy novel -The Secret Stealers.
“The Secret Stealers is based on the trues stories of the women of the OSS, the office of strategic services, which was the precursor to the CIA in WW2… it’s also based on some of the true stories of the women of the SOE, some of the British female spies and women of the French resistance.
The protagonist is Anna Kavanaugh. She’s a widow in DC… there is a war going on, it’s 1942. .. an old family friend General William Donavan, who is a real person,…, recruits her… He was the founder of the OSS… ( She becomes) one of the few OSS female spies during WW2 in occupied France.”
“The Secret Stealers is based on the trues stories of the women of the OSS, the office of strategic services, which was the precursor to the CIA in WW2… it’s also based on some of the true stories of the women of the SOE, some of the British female spies and women of the French resistance.
The protagonist is Anna Kavanaugh. She’s a widow in DC… there is a war going on, it’s 1942. .. an old family friend General William Donavan, who is a real person,…, recruits her… He was the founder of the OSS… ( She becomes) one of the few OSS female spies during WW2 in occupied France.”
From an interview with Janey Russo “It wasn’t even a question, we were compelled. We had to do it. It was our country. We had to do these things, to get it back,
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes, and to make this muddled world, a better place for those who live in it after we are gone.
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