The New York Times praised it as "a fiendishly plotted mind game of a novel, the kind you have to read twice", and Kirkus Reviews called it a "carefully researched, precisely written tour de force". After that, Maddie escapes to England.Ĭode Name Verity received critical acclaim. After that, Maddie receives Julie's confession from Engel, a chemist at the hotel who has had a crisis of conscience, and she and the French Resistance use Engel’s information to blow up the hotel, which the Nazis also use as their center of operations. In the end, Maddie kills Julie to prevent her from being tortured or sent to Natzweiler-Struthof as a specimen for medical experiments. In the second part of the plot, the story is told from Maddie's point of view, and reveals the events that transpired after the plane crash that left both women in France, and her plan to find Verity and bring her back home.
Through her confession, she tells the story of her friendship with Maddie, the pilot, and how she came to enter France in the first place. The latter is soon captured by Nazi authorities, detained in a former hotel, and forced to write a confession detailing the British war effort, which she decides to write in the form of a novel. On board are two best friends, a pilot (Maddie, code name: Kittyhawk) and a spy (Julie, code name: Verity). In 1943 Nazi-occupied France, a British Lysander spy plane crashes in the fictional town of Ormaie. A prequel novel, The Pearl Thief, was published in May 2017 it is a mystery involving Code Name Verity 's protagonist Julie a year before the war starts.
Printz Honor Book in 2013, and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.Ī loose sequel, Rose Under Fire, was published in 2013.
In World War II – a spy captured by Nazis in German-occupied France and the pilot who took her there. It focuses on the friendship of two young British women, Code Name Verity is a young adult historical fiction novel by Elizabeth Wein that was published in 2012.
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