Downtime.... if there is such a thing !
Murtyl is an opportunity for me to explain my own personal ethics in a context, that I always stand by my word, protect those I care for and wherever I can and with my training enable any entity within my care to be free to enjoy life.
I do this as best I can and try to let the books be adventurous fun to read but at the same time allow the reader to absorb these ethics through historical events.
Murtyl is also a Champion of modern society where woman can not only be considered as equals but in certain environments, jobs, situations exceed men but by the same token men can also excel in certain ways......but we are all created = Equal.
It is 'Man' that decided otherwise !
All of Murtyls Diaries are based on true historical events.
Murtyl;
A young lady who grew up in Hutton Rudby North Yorkshire pre WW11.
Now a fully grown lady, confident in the company of her peers as well as the underworld. Elegant and sophisticated extremely beautiful, just oozing style. She can can play rough with the big boys on the race track or anywhere they choose. Hard as nails, a decisive woman, who does not take prisoners.
She became one of the Special Operations Executive spies during WW11.
She is well conversed with most forms of weaponry from hand to hand combat through to short and long range fire arms. Speaking French and Arabic fluently which was learnt in her youth when traveling with her father. She was in her day an independent, for hire agent working through MI6 on the jobs they could not touch.
Berty;
Tall, blondish, broad shouldered French gent. Enthusiastic about life, where ever Murtyl is, it is a certainty he won’t be far behind.
He is Murtyl’s right hand. They met at the age of twelve in Marseile where she stayed with his family for several weeks at a time. Under the guidance of his father the Chief of the Surete (French National Police) for that area. Berty eventually progressed to be a Halifax bomber pilot flying out of Elvington close to York in North Yorks with a French squadron.
Erich;
Erich is now part of Murtyl’s personal team. He is Swiss Chef who wanted to be part of the war. He had worked for Charles Chaplin during WW11 in Montreaux where he and his partner in crime Stuart worked. Mr Chaplin would hear a little of what the Nazi’s were planing, then under the instruction of Mr Chaplin the two often ventured across the Swiss border to have a little fun by creating misfortune for the NAZi’s using home made devices. Which is how they met Murtyl.
Cash; Charles Andrew Stuart Hobson is a well traveled wise man who has a special position in the monastery in Dole at the base of the Jura mountain range near the Swiss border. He has engineering skill and has traveled the world picking various insights and knowledge. He is accomplished at various forms of Chinese Medicinal techniques as well as martial arts.
Six foot two inches, fit but a gentle man. Softly spoken with a natural caring insight and empathy to those around. He his given a long leash by the Abbot who appreciates his skills in medicine.
Wing Commander Jack Butler;
A broad shouldered tall dark haired athletic man with his dark thick set short spiky hair covering his rounded skull. His face always bright. Brown eyes nestles just above and either side of his strong but straight nose which tops his fashionable real, and I mean proper RAF style 1940’s moustache. A genuinely nice guy who develops a soft spot for Murtyl when she delivers a Halifax Aircraft to the operational squadron under his command during WW11.
The friendship lasts and after the war WingCo Jack becomes a go between and broker for Murtyl’s team.
Nick;
In the early eighties he was slim, a wanna be motorcycle racer working for a newspaper as a reporter. Long mousy brown hair as was the fashion then. He was sent to get a story on Murtyl and over a period of time was given little information as he thought at the time. Un-be-known to him Murtyl had, had her eye on him from the age of four and now was preparing him to research and write her diaries up.
Pip ;
Pip is the daughter of Nick. A beautiful young girl, growing up under her fathers guidance with all the enthusiasm a young person could muster. She has blonde long hair, steely, penetrating, bright blue eyes and is really quite small for her age. Getting into her own scrapes with her own age group. She’s cheeky and pushes her father to the limits of patience. She is desperate for each new diary and adventure to arrive. Where ever she can she emulates Murtyl’s personal code of self discipline and honor. Occasionally she slips up but does her utmost to be the ‘Best of the Best and then try’s to improve’ as her mentor used to do.
Mr Ron Kirk;
The only one left to have been alive during all of Murtyl’s operational career. He is a Solicitor working for a local firm in Yarm, North Yorkshire. During his time he became Murtyl’s legal adviser and confidant. Slim in stature with his side parted grey hair now. Gold rimmed glasses over a slender nose. Teeth a little crooked but as straight as they come. His shiny old grey pin stripe suit seem to be as much a part of him as he is of it. A happy man who releases diaries as and when his clients instruction allows him to do so. These diaries are released to Nick, and now including his daughter, to research and write up for the world to know as per Murtyl’s instruction. This can only be done as and when deemed by ‘Ron’ as safe to do so. This being, the particular mission is out of and not under any state laws of secrecy. All parties involved are deceased, and it is not going to place Nick or anyone else in danger.
The above gives you a very basic over view of the major characters that
carry on from one diary to the next, in their quests to save governments and the world from disasters that you and I never even knew had happened.
Enjoying the pace of life in the old Austin emblazoned with the names of 42 Wartime female heroines.
Murtyl : A modern day lady from a bygone era
Book 1 : First Tears
Prologue
It’s 1942. Murtyl is twenty three and a stunning young lady from North Yorkshire. She has been brought up to be decisive, strong willed and trained by her father to shoot. Her family friends abroad have taught her French, to fly, drive racing cars and repair them. After working as a land girl she is compelled through circumstance to join Churchill’s Special Operation Executive. Her first mission is to France where her skills and emotions are tested to the extreme. Her boyfriend has been listed as missing in action. Parallel to her SOE assignments she sets out on a mission to find him. She does not know her uncles are still in France, Willie Grover Williams and Robert Benoist the great Bugatti works drivers are running the allied resistance and spy operation from the Bugatti dealership in the center of Paris. This dealership just happens to be round the corner from Avenue Foche, where the German S.D. and Gestapo Headquarters are. One determined lady, the heads of the allied resistance in Paris and the Nazi war machine are going to tangle just a few days before D Day.
A young journalist is given his first solo assignment by his editor in March 1982. He sets off to get the story behind a character known as “Murtyl”.
Murtyl turns out to be in her sixties and as time goes by the journalist (Nick) be friends and falls in love with her. As their relationship grows Nick learns more and more about her skills but he has no idea as to why or how she can do what she can! It is all hinting as to her past.
Nick finds Murtyl dead on her settee. He finds two letters on her chest. One is from a resistance colleague who has been looking after Albert her beloved. The other letter is from Albert showing the emotion for her that had been suppressed, due to an injury to the head. The injury was received when jumping from his terminally damaged aircraft on a raid.
The first diary is received by Nick some time later from the legal firm that look after Murtyl’s estate. Nick now lives in Murtyl’s home at her request. On the condition he researches and writes up her diaries for publication when they are sent to him. He has agreed to do this with each diary when Murtyl’s legal representation supply them too him. once they confirm Official Secrets act statue has come to an end.
Her first mission was to liaise with a particular group of the resistance in Paris. Work behind enemy lines as a saboteur and spy under their instruction. (She was also hoping to find her boyfriend who had been shot down over Northern France) The mission started badly, nearly being shot down and arriving days late to her rendezvous. She recognises her uncles voices during persuasive questioning. They want to send her home., she refuses and they come to an agreement. This is to support her from a distance, inform the S.O.E. headquarters that she would develop her own resistance team. She would be nomadic to reduce the risk of capture. It also meant she could search for her lover!
Murtyl builds her own resistance team with four key players. An Irish man a Swiss man and eventually her boyfriend as well as a Monk. Through drop boxes and codes passed on the wireless via the BBC they attack specific targets and create diversions for major military attacks. Leading her team from the front, her unit is quickly seen to be a very credible asset, as they are ruthless, never doing just enough and are always on schedule.
Her uncle’s cell is broken close to D Day by the S.D. and Gestapo. Murtyl and her team are called in to assassinate the leaders of this cell, her uncle’s knowledge is too great regarding the invasion and must not be divulged during torture. She and her team now face a race against time as well as a moral issue.
The story ends with the first Grand Prix held in Paris (post war) on Victory in Japan Day (V.J.Day) September 15 1945. Over 150,000 people turned out to watch. The races were held in honour of the resistance and Robert Benoist.
Jean Pierre Wimalie won the main race starting from the back of the grid after receiving special dispensation from the American Air force to race, arriving to late to get any practice in.. Jean-Pierre had been Benoist and Grover’s protégés at Bugatti pre-war. Murtyl and her boyfriend dug out Benoist pre war Type 55 Bugatti and got it ready for race. She was not allowed to race a she had not been known as a Grand Prix driver before the war. As despair was weighing on her shoulders, there was a tap on her shoulder. It turned out to be Jean-Perre Wimillie, They hug, kiss and cried. He would drive her car and she talked him through every corner, breaking and accelerating point on the track to give him the best chance of success.
Murtyl returns to the U.K. to be demobilised and is refused by Maurice Buckmaster head of S.O.E. French section and his No 2 Vera Atkins. As a compromise Murtyl agrees to apply her skills working for the Times Newspaper as a reporter and spy under the direction of Mr. Ian Fleming while remaining a Civil Servant. Her adventures continue in her next diaries.
This first book is a tribute, celebration and homage to the forty two ladies who went into France during WW2 as Spy’s and radio operators for the S.O.E. French section of which only seven returned.
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