Book excerpt: In WW2, a strong French woman, Nicole, vows revenge against the Germans and joins the French Resistance to blow up bridges, trains and German installations. She falls in love with an American agent, code named Falcon, who parachuted into France just before D Day. The group takes two German soldiers prisoner during a raid. She is disturbed by their decision to execute the prisoners and tries to save the one she has learned is an anti-Nazi. Nicole is attacked by a former classmate who is later recruited into the French Milice, the French equivalent of the German Gestapo. She is sometimes vicious in defending herself against this cruel predator. Her mother and brothers expected her to marry a farmer and continue tradition of farming. But she wanted a different career. Before the German occupation, she planned to attend the Sorbone in Paris to take advantage of her talent as a writer. When the Germans began rounding up Jews in France, her family hid a local Jewish boy her age while his family was sent away to a concentration camp. He participatd in their attacks on the Germans.