Philip Friend

More than a decade after a failed World War II mission to catch a spy, an ex-intelligence officer working in a hotel stumbles upon what went wrong.

After a successful diamond heist in the U.S., the crooks return to Britain. They have anew scheme: to counterfeit diamonds for the American market. Hot on their trail are a crack team of investigators from Scotland Yard.

An Allied airman infiltrates occupied Belgium to retrieve the regimental flag buried by his comrades as they surrendered to the advancing German army.