undercover-operations

Ernest adopts a false identity and undertakes a secret mission involving covert communication and interaction with specific contacts.

1 chapter across 1 book

All Clear (2010)Connie Willis

Chapter 96

In this chapter, Ernest Worthing is assigned a covert mission to deliver a parcel and a letter to Captain Doolittle aboard the French fishing boat Mlle. Jeannette in Dover, posing as a Cornish sailor named Seaman Higgins. Meanwhile, the team continues to build a dummy military camp to deceive German reconnaissance, and Ernest struggles with the logistics of delivering planted news articles to local newspapers while preparing for his journey on foot, which involves hitchhiking and engaging with locals to reinforce disinformation efforts.