For my children, Sarah, Ruth, young Sean and little Hannah, who each in their separate ways have suffered and sweated through this one, but most of all for my wife Amy

Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolf Hitler lashes out with an impossible order: Kidnap Winston Churchill-or kill him. A disgraced war hero receives the suicidal mission-to take his commandos into the heart of England.
In the quiet seaside village of Studley Constable, a beautiful widow and a clotured IRA assassin set the ground work for the intimate act of treachery. On November 6, 1943, Berlin gets the codes message: "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!"