Code Name Verity
I have two weeks. You'll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.
That's what you do to enemy agents. It's what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine – and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.
He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I'm going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France – an Allied Invasion of Two.
Together, we make a sensational team . . .
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (2012); North East Teenage Book Award Nominee (2012); Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction (2012); Scottish Children's Book Award Nominee for Older Readers (2012); Agatha Award Nominee for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel (2012); Edgar Award for Best Young Adult (2013); Printz Honor (2013); Carnegie Medal in Literature Nominee (2013); Goodreads Choice Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2012); YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults (Top Ten) (2013)
About the Code Name Verity Cycle Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Pearl Thief(2017)
- 2.The Enigma Game(2020)
- 3.Code Name Verity(2012)
- 4.Rose Under Fire(2013)
Reading age: 14+ years
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. They'll get the truth out of her. But it won't be what they expect.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from a merciless and ruthless enemy?
Harrowing and beautifully written, Code Name Verity and its companion novel, Rose Under Fire, are filled with danger, resolve, and survival, revealing just how far true friends will go to save each other. The bondage of war will never be as strong as the bonds forged by the unforgettable friendship in these extraordinary tales of fortitude in the face of the ultimate evil.
Note: Books 1 and 2 were written after books 3 and 4, however they are listed here in event chronological order. They feature different characters and can be read out-of-sequence.