It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out assault on Sicily, but they face an impossible challenge: how to protect a massive invasion force from massacre. It falls to two intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war; centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.
