This is a quick read of about 135 pages that describes the adventures of Canadian soldiers who ended up in France as members of the Special Operations Executive. The first chapter covers how Frank Pickersgill could have had a safe and important government job in Ottawa during the war but instead chose to drop into occupied France as an Allied agent. In their rush to get agents into France, his handlers made several mistakes leading to Pickersgill's quick arrest, torture and eventual execution by the Gestapo.

The other chapters mainly cover the activities of agents Lucien Dumais, Raymond LaBrosse and Gaby Chartrand who organized Resistant cells that sabotaged German infrastructure and rescued down Allied fliers. ( )