Agence d'Information Nadal is, in fact, a front organization which plants disinformation which the allies hope will be picked up and acted upon by the Germans. Once she has been trained (and has managed to remove all traces of a foreign accent from her voice), Eve is sent to Belgium, where she works for a news agency servicing 137 local newspapers. She carries passports in the names of Margery Allerdice and Lily Fitzroy. Romer eventually recruits and trains Eva in England, giving her the first of many new names, Eve Dalton. A Russian émigré to Paris, Eva is contacted by British intelligence after the murder of her brother Kolia, who had been trying to infiltrate L'Action Francaise, a fascist group, so that he could obtain information for his British intelligence chief, Lucas Romer. The novel which ensues from the additional folders which Eva gives to Ruth on successive visits to Middle Ashton alternates between the life of Eva Delectorskaya from 1939 through 1942 and Ruth's life in the 1970s. Ruth does not know this Eva person-until her mother stuns her by announcing, "I am Eva Delectorskaya." Sally believes that someone is trying to kill her, and she wants Ruth to help her find her former boss in the intelligence service, where she worked during World War II. Though Sally has always led a very vigorous life, she tells Ruth she has "fallen." Clearly, however, Sally has something on her mind, and when Ruth is ready to go home, Sally gives her a folder of several dozen pages, entitled The Story of Eva Delectorskaya.
When Ruth, a single mother and teacher of English as a Second Language, goes to Middle Ashton to visit her mother, Sally Gilmartin, in 1976, she finds her mother in a wheelchair. "I began to understand something of the context for my mother's particular adventure… effectively a whole British security and intelligence apparatus right in the middle of Manhattan, hundreds of agents all striving to persuade America to join the war in Europe despite the express and steadfast objections of the majority of the population of the United States." Over to read a review of Any Human Heart) Over to read a review of Ordinary Thunderstorms)
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