


One of Julie's interrogators turns and works with the Resistance-yay-and she delivers Julie's papers to Maddie. The ambush goes terribly wrong, though, and unable to free her friend, Maddie shoots and kills Julie herself before the Nazis can begin torturing her. Maddie discovers that Julie will be transported, along with other prisoners, so Damask sets up an ambush to free them. Meanwhile, she writes Part 2 in her pilot's notebook in order to record details of the crash. The people of Damask help Maddie hide in plain sight by providing her with a false identity, and as she waits for a British refugee flight to get her out of France, she starts working with the group to find Julie and complete Julie's mission.

Oops.įortunately, she falls in with a Resistance circuit known as "Damask," the circuit Julie would have worked with had she not been captured early in her mission. Oh-and she wasn't supposed to be flying into France in the first place. Stuck in France without appropriate identity papers, though, Maddie is in serious trouble. Maddie takes up the narrative in Part 2, and she has lots of surprises for us, the first of which is that she's not dead-she did crash the plane after Julie parachuted out, but she survived. Part 1 ends with an order from a high-ranking Nazi for Julie's execution.

However, Julie buries any information that would be of military use to the Nazis inside the story of her friendship with Maddie and how Maddie came to be the pilot who dropped Julie in France before crashing her damaged plane. When the story opens, it's November 1943, and Julie is a prisoner of the Nazi Gestapo in Ormaie, a city in Nazi-occupied France.īelieving Maddie to be dead and having decided to exchange information in return for more time to write her story, Julie begins a long, detailed confession of everything she knows. Code Name Verity is the story of a friendship formed between two young women, Julie Beaufort-Stuart and Maddie Brodatt, during the early years of World War II.
