On a moonlit night in 1943 an Indian princess was parachuted in to occupied France to join the Resistance as a radio operator code-named Aurora. Daughter of a Sufi mystic, she had declined the Special Operations Executive firearms training because she did not want to kill anyone
- yet she landed in Brittany knowing that she had a 50 per cent chance of arrest, interrogation & torture by the Gestapo, & death
- which for captured agents could sometimes not come soon enough.
But the Nazis have to catch her first, & she has work to do in the meantime, together with a growing involvement with John Sutherl&, a British Commando serving alongside her. It is his voice that tells the story of the months that follow as he & Noor travel to Paris to join the Prosper network & participate in their own parts of the resistance. & as if escaping arrest & fighting the occupying forces is not enough, Sutherland has been told that there is a traitor in the network, & he must find out who it is before they are all betrayed. & yet, maybe London wants the betrayal...