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The Traitor Beside Her

by Mary Anna Evans
Kimberly M. Wetherell
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Justine Byrne can't trust the people working beside her. She can't trust the women who live down the hall. She can't even trust the man in front of her, and she just might love him. Inside the walls of Arlington Hall, a former women's college in Virginia that has been taken over by the United States Army, hundreds of men and women sit, bent over stacks of paper. Pencils in hand, they labor to decode countless pieces of communication coming from the Axis powers. Justine works among them, handling the most sensitive secrets of World War II. But she isn't there to decipher German codes. She's there to find a traitor. It's difficult for Justine to imagine any of the cryptanalysts as a spy. They are some of the most brilliant people in America—and some of the most eccentric—and they understand the stakes: a single secret in enemy hands could end thousands of lives. Someone has decided to share the Allies' secrets anyway. Justine keeps her guard up and her ears open, confiding only in her best friend, Georgette, a fluent speaker of Choctaw who is training to work as a code talker. Justine tries to befriend each suspect, believing that the key to finding the spy lies not in cryptography but in understanding how code breakers tick. A frightening attack is her first clue that someone is onto her, making it clear that, along with fighting to save her country, Justine is racing a ticking clock counting down the seconds of her own life.

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  • Release date

    June 6, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666636567
      • File size: 327992 KB
      • Duration: 11:23:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 24, 2023
      Evans follows up The Physicists’ Daughter with a lackluster second thriller featuring factory worker Justine Byrne. In 1944, U.S. Army Intelligence recruits Justine to Virginia’s Arlington Hall, a women’s college that’s been transformed into an American code-breaking facility. Despite her gifts for cryptanalysis, Justine’s handler, Paul, hasn’t stationed her there to crack enemy messages—he’s certain that Arlington Hall has been infiltrated by an enemy agent who has already disrupted the Allied war efforts and caused several deaths, and he wants her to ferret out the traitor. That traitor may also be responsible for the strangulation of a woman working for the head of the German code-cracking division. Justine’s mole hunt, interspersed with her fending off unwelcome suitors as she embarks on a relationship with Paul, packs a certain amount of inherent drama, but it’s largely undone by thin characters and purple prose (“Justine would always wonder if anyone saw her face when the first light of realization began to dawn”). Maisie Dobbs this is not. Agent: Anne Hawkins, John Hawkins & Assoc.

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