Rare title. Published by Little, Brown,and company of Boston, MA in 1942. A master of the espionage genre, MacInnes's second novel was made required reading for Allied intelligence agents who were being sent to work with the French resistance against the Nazis. It was featured on the New York Times first fiction bestseller list in 1942. The plot centres around a British agent, a real hero named Hearne, who is the mirror image of a guy who had been picked up wounded in a battle with Axis forces, Bertrand Corlay. See photos for condition. No dust jacket. In