On a dark night in May 1944, a month before D-Day, an American OSS agent floats helplessly in the sea off the coast of Brittany. When a German E-boat appears out of the fog, bearing down on him Craig Osbourne knows his war, possibly his life, is over - until he looks up to find himself face-to-face with a man he last saw at Harvard in 1939. Craig Osbourne's rescue plunges him into tge secret of COld Habour - a world of cross and double-cross, in which the charades of deception are as complex as they are deadly. Under the iron hand of the sinister Brigadier Dougal Munro, the tiny fishing village in the Cornish coast has been transformed into an elaborate scheme on which the fate of D-Day and the Allied victory depends. Where and when will they land? It is the answer to that question which obesses Hitler, Rommel, Himmler and the entire German High Command an answer that Cold Harbour must hide, Drawn into this deadly game - and at the same time repelled by Munro's cold and brutal willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to his goal - Osbourne soon finds himself the key player in a plot that involves the fate of countless people from French Resistance fighters and Allied espionage agents to the troops who will shortly be embarking to invade Europe. We are taken from the secret world of Cold Harbour to the elegant French chateau in which the game of deception is finally playe out, as Osbourne and the young woman who has been selected for the most crucial espionage role of the war risk everything to mislead the Germans.
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