Maggie Hope is part of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's team who visit Washington DC weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. While I've always enjoyed the Maggie Hope novels, Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante was particularly interesting to me. FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt play significant roles in the book which is a treat -- viewing Jim Crow and the inequities of the time give the story more complexity. It's not just the Americans that are forced to face their hypocrisy as the British visitors must also take into account their roles in subjugation and exploitation of other nations and peoples as a colonial power.

Beyond these political issues, this latest Maggie Hope novel has plenty of action, intrigue, uncertainty and heroism against the Nazi opponents. Overall, a very fun escape!

I did not realize that I had not reviewed this title. I apologize for the confusion.

This is #5 in an engaging series, during which Maggie Hope moves from a secretary to Winston Churchill, trains as a SOE agent, survives a trip to Nazi Berlin and in this volume, accompanies the Prime Minister on his December 1941 Christmas visit to Washington D.C. The plot intertwines allied strategy sessions with the newly enlarged US government power to conduct surveillance, the disappearance of Mrs. Roosevelt's typist, the pending execution of a railroaded African-American sharecropper, Walt Disney's war propaganda work and the looming threat of V-1 rockets.

I didn't care for this book. I got to the third chapter and gave up.

I continue to be impressed and amazed by this author.
She, obviously, does extensive historic research for the time, place, and people.
She also crafts an engaging story-line with those elements.
The characters are people I want to know, to follow their lives.
The plot is irresistible.
I finished the book feeling that I had much better grasp of who these historical and purely fictional people were and their place in history.
And it is an exciting and enjoyable read.
I highly recommend this and all of her books.