He claimed that she had told him everything about Lili while she was under the influence of a dose of opium that he gave her. The following morning René turned Eve over to the Germans. Throughout the evening, René smashed all of Eve’s knuckles as he questioned her about the woman with whom she had been arrested. He suspected she was a spy and wanted to find out for sure. Eve agreed because she believed she might be fired from her position and lose her job as a spy if she did not.Īfter Eve and Lili were arrested when trying to get through a German checkpoint on only one safe-conduct pass, René closed his restaurant so he could deal with Eve. Even though Eve had hoped that René would not notice her, he asked her to become his mistress. Because Eve was able to speak German, she could eavesdrop on the German officers to whom René catered in his restaurant. She was recruited as a spy and began working in René’s restaurant, Le Lethe, in German-occupied Lille. In World War I, Eve had wanted to take an active role in the fighting but was unable to do so not only because she was a woman, but also because she had a stammer. She had made it her life’s goal to hunt René down and kill him. René, the man for whom Rose had worked at one point, was Eve’s enemy.

Eve agreed to help Charlie but had her own ulterior motive. Charlie believed her cousin was still alive and hoped that Eve could help find her. Charlie manipulated their trip plans so that she could visit Eve, a woman whose address she had found in the search for her cousin, Rose. Along the way, Eve and Charlie discovered similarities in their lives and bonded as friends.Ĭharlie’s mother had brought Charlie from their home in New York to England for an abortion. Realizing that her enemy was still alive, Eve set out to find and kill him. Clair came to Eve looking for her cousin, Rose, who was also connected with René and who supposedly died during World War II. Eve believed she would never get the revenge she desired when she was told René was dead. Evelyn “Eve” Gardiner left her job as a spy in World War I with the intention of killing René, a war profiteer whom she blamed for the death of her best friend. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn tells the story of two unlikely friends and their quest for revenge on a brutal man.

The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Quinn, Kate.

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