Chapter 1 THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM In 1944 World War II 1939 1945 raged around the world At a police station in France a girl identified as a fourteen-year-old soap seller waited to be searched by German soldiers They eyed her ponytail which was tied up with a shoelace She untied the lace and shook out her hair The soldiers found nothing suspicious and let her go 4
The soldiers didn’t know that the girl was Phyllis Latour a twenty-three-year-old secret agent Inside the shoelace was a strand of silk Hidden on the thin silk strand were secret codes She also stashed silk threads in a knitting bag she carried with her Latour used the codes to send secret radio messages World War II spies hid secret codes in everyday items that would usually go undetected by enemy officers 5
