A Mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War.

A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front.

A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity.

An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books.

Each will make a journey that changes history.



The constellations will force the Mystic's daughter to make an impossible choice. To remain at her

harp as the shadow of war looms again - or join the top-secret Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Babouli to her Sufi father, 'Madeleine' to the Gestapo, a lone mission to Occupied Paris promises to

be the most hazardous of World War Two.



Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems

with tigers, zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, angels, assassins, chessmen, cyanide, beetles, butterflies

and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India and Latin America, Codename: Madeleine is a

kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry and resistance.