On 9 May 1940 the happy-go-lucky Captain James Barron, serving as an intelligence officer in Flanders, attends the wedding of a prosperous French wine merchant's daughter in the city of Chartres. But when he awakes the next morning he learns that the German army has crossed the frontier. He soon finds himself in charge of several agents in France, a task rendered all the more difficult because James has fallen hopelessly in love ...
The second in the French Resistance series Resistance to the Nazi forces occupying France is growing, and the Germans begin to counter-attack. Their principle target is the group headed by the beautiful Liane de Gruchy, and they infiltrate one of their agents into the group. Unaware of this, Liane and her family, in league with her lover, English security officer James Barron, pursue their own agenda of sabotage and subversion until the bloody climax.
The third in the French Resistance series In Nazi-occupied France, the assassination of a new German commandant by Amalie de Gruchy sparks a crisis in both Nazi Germany and the British secret service. Supposedly killed in a raid a few months previously, Amalie is now being pursued by, amongst others, the head of the German secret police and the mysterious Joanna Jonnson, a spy with a murky past. Amalie's beautiful sister, Liane de Gruchy also thought to have been killed months before comes out of hiding to help in the search for Amalie. But soon the Resistance finds itself with a much bigger problem as the Germans uncover British plans which, in the wrong hands, could change the course of the war.
D-Day 1944. The fourth in the French Resistance series As the preparations for the invasion of France in June 1944 move into high gear, the French Resistance is required to increase activities against the German infrastructure. Leading her group into repeated action is Liane de Gruchy, the most wanted woman in France, commanded by her controller and lover Major John Barron of the SIS. As the day approaches, they, together with several other groups, are ordered to a remote area in southern France to create and defend an airfield into which the Allies hope to fly men and munitions to coincide with the invasion and make a third front behind the German lines.