![]() And that means explaining some things first. I’m supposed to be using formal language, the way we’re taught at school, but I’ve decided that this is my report, and I’m going to tell it my own way. That’s why I’m writing this.īy the way, this is the official version of the notes I took during our mission. But they’re listening now, at last, and they want to know everything that happened. We had to be very clever, and, as usual, none of the grown-ups listened to us until it was almost too late. This is the story of how I – how we – uncovered a Nazi spy in England, solved a murder and joined the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. ![]() Evil can look like a starchy governess, or a kind old lady, or the warden who comes round to check the blackout. I thought that being evil must make you look evil.īut, now that I’m older, I’ve realized that evil can look like anything. I imagined them with scaly, flickering skin and yellow eyes. When the war began, I thought that Nazis might look like the lizards who used to bask on the steps of our Big House, back in Hong Kong. Anything can happen in a war, and anyone can be a hero.Īnd anyone can be evil too. ![]() I am ten years old (nearly eleven), and I have become a spy in order to save the world. 1 From the report of May Wong, WOE operative, 18th December 1940 ![]()
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