The Bordeaux Betrayals: A WW2 Spy Thriller Based on True Events in Nazi-occupied Bordeaux. Book 2.

by Kate Duprez

318 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 14, 2026

About the author

A new voice in historical fiction, Kate Duprez writes for all who love reading about the many ‘ordinary’ women and men who have shaped history by performing extraordinary deeds. Her novels, The Warsaw Messenger, The Bordeaux Bakery, and its sequel, The Bordeaux Betrayals are inspired by several of the British agents who operated undercover in Nazi occupied Europe during WW2.
She works part time, enabling her time to research and write. She loves to travel and enjoys an outdoor lifestyle in beautiful New Zealand.

Reviews

[Fiction Fellowship]

📚 Spring 1944, occupied France-
Book 2 continues the complicated wartime lives of Jack, Ralph, Marie-Louise, Emilie, and Fischer. Fischer is questioning the occupants of Jack’s apartment building to find out where he is hiding. Fischer brings in a certain man because he believes he has info on the Resistance. Fischer knows that with this man’s wife in prison, the man will willingly give up the secret plans of the Resistance so that her life will be spared.

Marie-Louise and Eve leave the convent to return to the farm. Eve wants to play an active role in some of the Maquis’ activities and Marie-Louise only wants to help with equipment training now.

There is betrayal in the Resistance and members and innocent bystanders are getting killed. Will the Gestapo be able to zero in on the network and stop them or will the network come out on top? This is a story of courage, moral compromise and the catastrophic cost of resistance. I enjoyed the story and learning more about true stories of Resistance fighters. The Bordeaux Betrayals is the sequel to The Bordeaux Bakery. 📚

☺️ Thank you Kate Duprez for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Amanda Mc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another brilliant book by Kate Duprez.  This book came with a lot of emotional scenes which really touched me.  I kept asking myself if I would be able to face such danger, learn how to kill someone to keep my life, learn to forgive.
It might be a novel but it is based on a lot of fact and portrays brilliantly the dangers of that time. I always test a novel's strengths by the way it captures my attention and my feelings, this book does all that.
I will miss the new friends I've made in this book, so brave, so strong when needed but hearts with feelings be it love or hatred.
It you have read The Bordeaux Bakery you cannot not read The Bordeaux Betrayals.

[Tina Lincoln · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing WW2 story of strength
Marie-Louise continues on her life path of survival and to help the war cause. Having her baby, Jacques-Robert, helps to keep her on the path of survival.
Finding out what happened to the farm and the people, that fuels Marie-Louise to fight even more. With the men and children dead and gone, the older women are all that is left to run the farm and grow food.
Thank you, Kate Duprez, for a good story.
I received a complimentary arc copy of this book and this is my honest review.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love a WWII story that is well researched and makes me feel as if I am there. I want the author to write characters that make me feel like I am one of them. This story did all that. Sometimes I feel guilty in loving a war story. But there is so much more to the story than that. They are emotional, struggles, friendship and pulling together. A well researched story can also teach us history. Loved this story!

[paula guidry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great WWII thriller