Barely out of school when he was recruited by Churchill's Special Operations Executive (SOE), Tony Brooks parachuted into France in July 1942, sent to support the French Resistance. Paying tribute to a friend, Mark Seaman chronicles Brooks's encounter with a British traitor and a notorious double agent; his brief incarceration in a Spanish concentration camp; injuries resulting from a parachute jump into France; and even capture and interrogation by the Gestapo, ending the war in command of a force of some 10,000 armed resistance fighters.