Agent Zo

Praise for Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved:

“One of the most exciting books I’ve read this year.”– “The Spectator”

“Agent Zo is a triumph. The deftly told life of this remarkable heroine helps restore women to their rightful place in the record of the Second World War. Absolutely essential reading.”–Hallie Rubenhold, bestselling author of The Five
“A remarkable story of resistance, elegantly told.”–Roger Moorhouse, author of The Forgers
“A stunning biographical achievement.”–Alison Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Brings alive a glamorous, swashbuckling heroine.”– “The Sunday Times (London)”
“Celebration of a hero of the Polish resistance during World War II–whose work, because she was a woman, was long obscured. Elzbieta Zawacka was the only woman ever to be enlisted in the elite special forces of the Polish army in exile, who was parachuted into her Nazi-occupied homeland to help organize resistance fighters A well-told story from a little-known corner of World War II history.”–Kirkus Reviews
“Clare Mulley skillfully weaves together Zawacka’s personal story with the broad sweep of events. Both infectious and mesmerizing.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Gripping, moving and important: an amazing and until-now neglected story of female WW2 heroism and secret derring-do. This tale of the resistance fighter Agent Zo is amazingly told and deeply researched by the excellent historian of WW2 espionage Clare Mulley.”–Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
“The astonishing story of an extraordinary woman–for so long silent and unseen bit now, thanks to Clare Mulley’s forensic research and razor-sharp eye for detail, no longer forgotten.”–Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist, The Many Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
“This is a terrific story, told with passion and authority, about a Polish woman resistance fighter of extraordinary courage and ingenuity. Not simply a page turner, this is an important addition to the literature of World War Two, a story for our times about female heroism which should be widely known.”–Anne Sebba, author of Ethel Rosenberg