A Truth to Lie for (Elena Standish, #4)

A Truth to Lie for by Anne Perry
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

A bit slow going in the beginning. Elena is sent into Germany to get a scientist (Hartwig) working in germ warfare out, another agent is sent to get his counterpart (Fassler) out. Not knowing how to get a car on her own and forbidden by Peter from contacting Roger Cordell (the cultural attache and M16) she reaches out to Jacob, who helped her escape Germany in Death in Focus.

Hartwig is shot to death during a car chase, and Elena and Jacob are tasked with helping get Fassler out as the agent sent to expedite his escape has been injured. Elena isn't anymore successful getting Fassler out than she was Hartwig he dies in a plane crash that Jacob and Elena miraculously escape from.

Lucas does a bit better on his mission to kill Paulus out of sheer luck. Hans (Roger Cordell's son in law) is sent by Paulus to pick Lucas up and Paulus orders him to kill Lucas. Hans has been unhappy with his superior officer for awhile and this assignment is the last straw he kills Paulus instead and takes Lucas to the airport. He then contacts Roger Cordell for help getting his wife Cecily and daughter Madeleine out of the country, and encourages Roger and Winifred Cordell to flee Germany too. Roger and Winifred stay behind but Hans and his family safely escape and Roger arranges for Hans to work in England.

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