Most of the story is very rushed, clipped, and unless you've never read about spies, be they women or men, in World War II, dull. I am not sure what the author meant to tell the reader about this young woman. Empty? Brittle? Brave? Suicidal? It is never really clear. SPOILER ALERT kind of: It has one of those endings you get to guess what might have happened next. I think its fairly obvious what happens next but who knows?