Espionage / (bk. 1 Espionage)

Franc, 1944: Nobody expects Peter Eddy to survive his first commando mission- to retrieve a code book stolen by the Nazis- so when he does come back alive, his success is rewarded with an even more daunting assignment. Partnered with the French Resistance leader Jacques Olivier, Eddy must identify which of three Allied contacts in Calais is a double agent and use the traitor to help implement a strategic Allied diversion that might win the war. Eddy and Olivier secretly cross the English Channel to confront their suspects one at a time, but what appears to be a clean assignment soon turns disastrous, and a shocking betrayal leaves Eddy in the grip of the Gestapo. With the courageous aid of Olivier and his sister, Genevieve, Eddy evades his captors with a dangerous escape plan. But as the Allied invasion approaches, treachery in the least likely places leads to fresh graves in the bloodied European soil- and only the power of loyalty and love can transform tragic endings into new beginnings.