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During World War II the Allies went to extraordinary lengths to make the Nazis believe the coming invasion would be at Calais, not Normandy. They used plywood artillery and inflatable dummy tanks and other faux constructions to fool the Nazis from the air. But from the ground these were obvious fakes. Had one German agent been able to get near these dummy forces on the ground, the deception--crucial to the success of D-Day--wouldn't have worked. The premise of this espionage thriller asks, what
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A spy thriller. The book is set during the world war. Germany's master spy 'The Needle' who has been in enemy territory deep undercover for several decades comes to know of a misinformation campaign by the allies to mislead Hitler to the location of a major allied offensive. The book has a good pace and is well written.
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