Tagget is an irresistible novel of suspense

and adventure from the publishers of the

bestselling Eye of the Needle, an espion-

age thriller spanning two generations from

World War II to the present, and combining

historical facts of a secret Anglo-American

operation to deceive Nazi generals about

the location of the Normandy invasion with

an equally ingenious parallel intrigue in the

here and now as England, Russia and

America fight the espionage war that con-

tinued long after the battles were over, The

link is John Tagget, who in 1944 was

parachuted into occupied France only to

find a net of betrayal waiting, who thirty-five

years later cannot recall more than a few

frightening bits and pieces of the lonely

secret role he played at the center of

"Operation Overlord" and of what was

done to "help" him forget, and whose

vengeful search for his stolen past

endangers him and the woman he loves in

a race between the CIA, British MI-6 and