The Quicksilver of Deception: A Tom O'Brien: OSS Agent Novel

This is a story about D-Day, not the D-Day that took place but the one the Allies wanted Hitler and the German General Staff to believe in and plan for. The British and American intelligence services ran a brilliant deception program to fool Hitler. Unfortunately, OSS intelligence officer Tom O'Brien found himself to be a sacrificial pawn in this giant chess match. Unwilling to accept this role, O'Brien plays his own cat and mouse game with the Gestapo and the SS while he struggles to survive. Parachuting in darkness into Nazi occupied France, he hopes his plan will keep him alive until D-Day.

This story is told from the perspective of the Double Cross operations that preceded and supported D-Day. It is also the story of the OSS Sussex teams and Jedburgh teams that followed the British SOE into occupied France where they displayed tremendous courage and initiative contributing to the secret intelligence efforts needed to prepare for the invasion of France. Combining action with intrigue, this fast-paced novel races to an exciting conclusion.