THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA’S GREATEST FEMALE SPY BY JUDITH L. PEARSON (AUTHOR) This book is dedicated to the men and women whose bravery, sacrifices, and vision in the little-known world of espionage turned the course of a world war. WANTED: The Limping Lady THE INTRIGUING AND UNEXPECTED TRUE STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST HEROIC—AND MOST DANGEROUS—FEMALE SPY! Virginia Hall Goillot, (6 April 1906 — 8 July 1982) was an American spy with the British Special Operations Executive during World War II and later with the American Office of Strategic Services and the Special Activities Division of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was known by many aliases, including “Marie Monin”, “Germaine”, “Diane”, “Marie of Lyon”, “Camille”, and “Nicolas”. The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis. The Nazi secret police were hunting her. They had distributed “wanted” posters throughout Vichy France, posters with a sketch of a sharp-featured woman with shoulder-length hair and wide-set eyes, details provided by French double agents. They were determined to stop her, an unknown “woman with a limp” who had established resistance networks, located drop zones for money and weapons and helped downed airmen and escaped POWs travel to safety. The Gestapo’s orders were clear and merciless: “The woman with the limp is one of the most valuable Allied agents in France and we must find and destroy her!” https://antonellapatsidou.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/wolves-at-the-door/