In a shadowy cave in a limestone cliff deep in France’s Dordogne in 1942, an SOE agent hunches over a wireless and taps out a crucial message to the intelligence agency’s London office.
Months before, the agent, Aubrey Huston—then a wounded fighter pilot in a hospital in India, was so desperate to be with his beloved wife, Camille, who was living in a village in occupied France, that he was willing to do almost anything to see her. While recovering from an amputation after his plane crashed on a Flying Tigers’ mission in Burma, he found a way. When the British SOE offered to smuggle him to her in exchange for being their agent and a member of the French Resistance, he grasped it. He was determined the loss of his leg would not limit him from protecting his family, and adapting to his double life as a husband and as a secret agent and patriot. But haunting him was the thought that, if the enemy caught him, the people he loves would become victims of cruelty or death.
Defending against the Nazis closing in on him becomes a daily challenge. Worse, his daring, ingenious plans for revenge against them for murdering a loved one, and escape to England, seem futile. Traitors abound, and France’s borders are closed.