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“It came about almost like a secondary school creative writing exercise set by the teacher, where someone gives you a photograph…and you have to write the back story. About ten years ago I was in Lithuania in a place called Fort Nine, outside the city of Kaunas. I saw a photograph of three teenage girls, partisans, posing with German guns. I presume they’d taken them from an unfortunate German patrol. It was one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever seen in my life—how young they were, the obvious risk that the whole thing carried, how much fun they were having. They were smiling. One of them had a cigarette dangling from her lips. She’s posing like a film star.” Read more...
Five Classic European Spy Novels
Patrick Worrall, Thriller and Crime Writer
