You see, Catherine is an American who wants to be a radio reporter sharing the devastation of the bombing with American listeners. The connection to Catherine is that she rides along one evening. Maisie is part of an ambulance crew that drives the streets to help the wounded at night. Nightly, Londoners take to air raid shelters and cellars to escape bombing. The German bombing campaign known as the Blitz is in progress when the book begins. Plot of The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear

The unfortunate victim is an American named Catherine Saxon. The murder she investigates in The American Agent happens in September 1940, in London, during the Blitz. Maisie is a British detective who solves mysteries for the British government. It’s part of a series featuring Jacqueline Winspear’s famous heroine, Maisie Dobbs.

Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend-and the possibility that she might be falling in love again.Because I like to read a range of things, and because it seemed the most attractive book on the featured shelf at my local library when I stopped in, I read The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear recently. As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the citizens of London, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect the young evacuee she has grown to love. Accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice-Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitler's Munich in 1938-he asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon's death. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities.

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