Operation Auger

by Eryl Jones

A Roman tunnel under the English Channel? Oberst Dieter Vilma doesn’t know what’s worse: that British intelligence might believe such rubbish, or that they believe that he might.

As a chess grandmaster, he knows a bluff when he sees one. But as in chess so is espionage: opportunity and ambush move alike.

Soon German intelligence is riven by two paralysing questions: what if your enemy believes the impossible? What if they’re right?

It is 1944, and D-Day is heading the way of Dunkirk. To turn the tide, Allied command throws everything into one last landing on the beaches of France.

It’s a desperate gambit, but two Cambridge-men believe they know how to load the dice.
An ancient document hints at an unlikely relic of Europe’s past wars.

It seems implausible , maybe even impossible – but that’s why it just might work