This is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan the descendant of an Indian Prince Tipu Sultan the Tiger of Mysore who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. Shrabani Basu tells the moving story of Noor's life from her birth in Moscow
- where her father was a Sufi preacher
- to her capture by the Germans. Noor was one of only three women SOE awarded the George Cross & under torture revealed nothing but her name
- but not her real name nor her code name just the name she used to register at SOE: Nora Baker. Kept in solitary confinement chained between hand & feet & unable to walk upright Noor existed on bowls of soup made from potato peelings. Ten months after she was captured she was taken to Dachau & on 13 September 1944 she was shot. Her last word was ' Liberte'.