Live the Dream by Claire Lorrimer

Author:Claire Lorrimer [Lorrimer Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2016-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Kristoffer sat down at the table in the room above a jewellery shop in Bergen where he had just joined four other resistance workers in his cell. They were smiling as they congratulated themselves on the mission they had accomplished the previous day. Lorentz, their leader and radio operator, had informed the London headquarters about their successful destruction of a train carrying vital army equipment, and now London, where their Norwegian director was located, had decided to include them in a far more important mission.

‘They want you to go over there, Kris, so they can spell out the details. Sounds more involved than usual.’

He and the other two men turned to look at Kristoffer, who said, ‘I wonder why they specified me?’

‘Because you’re bilingual!’ Lorentz replied. ‘Your German is good enough for you to pass as one of them.’ He was about the same age as Kristoffer and, like the other three men, his clothes and appearance were as unremarkable as possible. This enabled them to pass scrutiny without questioning when they attended their daily jobs in a factory now making ammunition boxes for the Germans. The owner was a fiercely patriotic family man. He had given them fictitious jobs which frequently took them away from the factory so they could be absent when their intermittent tasks as resistance workers needed them. He was as keen to hinder the German occupiers as they were and never hesitated to provide fictitious cover for them when they were absent.

‘You’re to go to London immediately,’ Lorentz was saying. ‘They are sending a plane to pick you up on Thursday night at the usual place, weather permitting. I have alerted Bertil to have his men ready to guide it in.’ He smiled grimly as he added: ‘Sounds a bigger job than we’ve done so far. I gathered that two other cells will be involved.’

Kristoffer knew that his four compatriots were anxious to be doing bigger and more dangerous jobs than those they had undertaken since last June when Norway had finally surrendered. By now a large number of men like themselves had formed groups all over the country who continued to hamper the invaders in any way possible. The population as a whole remained defiant, showing their feelings in simple, unpunishable ways such as refusing to sit down on a vacant bus or tram seat if it was next to a German. There were, however, a number of people now called Quislings after the German puppet, Vidkun Quisling, who fraternized with the enemy, but the population as a whole was intensely loyal and there were many like those in the Resistance who risked their lives harassing the invaders.

Kristoffer’s heart was now beating fast with the news Lorentz had imparted. Not only was he to be involved in something of major importance but he was to fly to England – to the one place in the world where he could, hopefully, find Dilys. It was now nearly two years since she had been whisked away by her father and he’d never had a reply from her to the letter he’d addressed to Sir Godfrey.

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