Cloaked in Darkness

Bernard G. Lord
Infinity Publishing (2007)
ISBN 0741437554
Reviewed by Lisa Kisner for Reader Views (10/07)


Annette Renard leads a double life in Nazi-occupied France as the town’s teacher and also a new member of the French resistance movement.  Brought into the resistance group by a childhood friend, Annette takes part in missions that include sabotaging Nazi trains and helping crews from downed airplanes escape to England.  As their successful missions accumulate, the group is given a more challenging mission, which involves enlisted men as well as the resistance fighters.  As readers follow the dangerous lives of the resistance and servicemen, the danger escalates.  It becomes obvious there is a traitor in their midst--but who?

While reading this book I felt that I was actually there taking part in the action. I could feel the cold while waiting for the train to derail and also the tension and fear in the air when Annette comes face to face with the enemy.  This book is well-researched and the reader will feel that many of the events may well have actually happened during the war.  The author developed characters that accurately represent some of the many people from all walks of life involved in World War II.  Once I started reading “Cloaked in Darkness,” I found it hard to put down.  This well-written, tension-packed book will thrill readers of historical fiction, World War II or general espionage novels.

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