Espionnes, Six Agents Secrets D’exception

Six Exceptional Secret Agents

Through the portraits of six women with extraordinary destinies, Marie-Laure Buisson plunges us into
the world of the secret services of the world’s greatest powers, from the twentieth century to the present
day.

How did Sonya, a German communist spy, help Stalin develop the Soviet atomic bomb? What
prompted Sylvia, a South African to join the Mossad and hunt down Ali Salameh, the leader of the
Black September group, responsible for the bloody Munich bombing of the 1972 Olympic Games?
Why did Kim Hyun-hee, a secret agent in the service of the fearsome dictator Kim Il-sung, blow up a
South Korean plane in 1987? What prompted Amaryllis, at the age of twenty, to follow the trail of
nuclear arms dealers in Asia on behalf of the CIA? How does Justine, an agent of the French interior
services of the DGSI, track the Islamist terrorists of Al-Qaeda, from Bali to Afghanistan? And with
what means does Christine pursue traffickers of all kinds in the Gulf of Aden, while preventing a state
hostile to France from recruiting a scientist likely to harm its interests?

About the author: Initially a business lawyer, Marie-Laure Buisson worked at the European
Parliament and was Deputy General Delegate of the Veolia Environnement Foundation. Attracted by
the army and its values, in 2011 she became an auditor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in National
Defence, where she discovered the Foreign Legion. She is now a Legionnaire of Honour 1st Class,
Colonel of the Citizen Reserve of the Air Force and godmother of the 4th Foreign Regiment. She is the
founder of Fondation Marie-Laure Buisson, which supports military personnel and their families, in
particular those wounded in combat and the families of soldiers who died for France or died in service.
She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Battle Monuments Foundation.