'I have two weeks You'll shoot me at the end no matter what I do' Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal Code Name Verity is a bestselling tale of friendship & courage set against the backdrop of World War Two Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat one a pilot the other a special operations executive When a vital mission goes wrong & one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France she is captured by the Gestapo & becomes a prisoner of war The story begins in Verity's' own words as she writes her account for her captors Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they've ever believed in is put to the test Elizabeth Wein is a leading voice in young adult historical fiction Her novel Rose Under Fire was nominated for the Carnegie Medal & shortlisted for the Costa Award 2014 Fans of The Book Thief & Carmen Reid's Cross My Heart will love this Look out for Elizabeth's other books Black Dove White Swan & Rose Under Fire Elizabeth Wein was born in New York & grew up in England Jamaica & Pennsylvania She is married with two children & now lives in Perth Scotland Elizabeth is a member of the Ninety-Nines the International Organization of Women Pilots She was awarded the Scottish Aero Club's Watson Cup for best student pilot in 2003 & it was her love of flying that partly inspired the idea for her bestselling award-winning novel Code Name Verity A remarkable book' Daily Mail