Pilot Richard Canidy and his half-German friend Eric Fulmar are selected by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to find a rare ore that is necessary to create an atomic bomb during World War II.

A group of Bill Donovan's daring O.S.S. agents matches wits with top Nazi intelligence operatives as they play a vital role in the behind-the-scenes intrigue, strategy, and planning of the Allies during World War II.

Griffin fans have waited years for the return of his stories of the OSS, and now, at last, aided and abetted by his son, William E. Butterworth IV, Griffin has brought back his iconoclastic heroes in a brand-new adventure. The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting and sinking U.S. supply ships. Ships are burning at their moorings in U.S. ports, and a series of explosions has afflicted trains and train stations...

It is summer 1943. Two of the allies' most important plans are at grave risk--Operation Overlord's invasion of France and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan--and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They must fight the Axis to sabotage Germany's new "aerial torpedo" rockets; to rescue a missing covert OSS team; and to exploit German intelligence...