Dieppe in Occupied France was the place, bloody 1942 was the time. Quintain had only a handful of ragged French partisans to help him strike to the heart of the swaggering German panzers. And among his men one was a double agent, secretly betraying him. Which one?
Specializing in action noir, William Arthur Howard Baker got his break writing for the Sexton Blake series of detective thrillers in the mid 50's, eventually becoming an editor. He reused many of the plots from this popular set of stories for his own spy series. A penname of his was Peter Saxon.