On Bertie's first night as a volunteer during an air raid, he forgets his helmet and is running late. Then he bumps into a girl who distracts him and then finds a woman collapsed in an alley. When he brings back help for the woman, she's gone. Later he discovers a notebook that must have been dropped during those exchanges and what that notebook reveals is a mystery that could undermine the coming American invasion.
This book was really designed for the middle grade readers with accessible codes throughout and a good deal of history with a middle grade protagonist. Action, mystery, adventure - it ticked all the boxes. My one complaint (and maybe I just was reading the end too fast) - when the mystery was finally solved it wasn't someone we had really met so it didn't have as much punch to me as a reader.
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