Dancing with Deception

Catherine McCullagh

nov 2022 · Distribuido por Simon and Schuster

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Love, lies and deceit in occupied Paris:  a young nurse finds herself caught between the resistance and the Gestapo. 

Marisa Carnarvon is an enigma to her family.  In 1938 she turns her back on her privileged Sydney lifestyle to become a nurse in a London hospital.  With conflict looming, she moves to a Red Cross hospital in Paris, totally unprepared for the forces the approaching maelstrom will unleash.  In June 1940 the Germans invade Paris and the young nurse is soon pressured by the leader of the local resistance cell to work for the fledgling movement.  Marisa's life becomes increasingly precarious with the arrival of a new Gestapo chief who sets out to seduce her, and the hunt for a traitor in the organisation that throws her into the resistance firing line.

As war approaches its climax, Marisa's Gestapo lover flees and the young nurse follows.  Only now does Marisa finally discover the truth behind the man whose life was a masterpiece of deception.

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Catherine McCullagh is a highly respected editor and author. She has worked as an editor and advisor on numerous military and Australian history books and has two published works to her name, Willingly into the Fray, a narrative history of the first 100 years of Australian Army nursing, and War Child, the true story of a woman who grew up in pre-war Germany, which she ghost-wrote for Annette Janic. Dancing with Deception is her first novel. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) at the Australian National University before joining the Army as a teacher and linguist. After a 20-year career she left the military to follow her other passion – military history.