It is May 1944. RAF pilot Archie Wyndham ferries undercover agents and members of the French Resistance to and from German-occupied France. It is dangerous work, only possible on nights when there is a full moon. On his latest mission, Archie is forced to crash-land in Normandy. Badly wounded, he reaches the mysterious village of Belville, where he is helped by nineteen-year-old Marie Clément. Marie has a lover, Wehrmacht officer Heinrich Hauser, a man with secrets to protect. He leads the hunt for Archie but, for reasons of his own, helps Marie to keep the young Englishman safe. When Heinrich is arrested by the Gestapo, Marie takes Archie into her home. For a few precious weeks, the war takes second place as Archie and Marie grow closer. The war reasserts itself with explosive force when the D-Day landings sweep into Normandy. As the Allies drive back the forces of the Reich, the secrets of Belville are finally revealed, and Archie, Marie and Heinrich must come to terms with the choices they have made. Drawing on the factual background of the secret RAF missions that were vital to the Allied war effort and the work of the French Resistance, Spies by Moonlight tells a story of courage and self-sacrifice in time of war and enemy occupation - and of love that will not be denied, however great the danger.
