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Colonel Richard Heslop, codenamed Xavier, was one of Britain's greatest special operations agents in France, organising resistance groups to sabotage German operations from late 1942 right through to D-Day. Yet his name barely gets a mention in many of the accounts of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). His work involved daily encounters with the terrifying possibilities of capture, torture and death. It was a job where a careless whisper could deliver a man into the hands of the Gestapo; a job that involved acts of sabotage, espionage, theft and sometimes even murder.

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'The story is alive with the high-tension of clandestine warfare, and it is distinguished by an intelligence and natural authority exceptional in books of this kind.' Sunday Telegraph 'A well-written, unemotional account - one recognises the human being under the professional agent.' Guardian

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Colonel Richard Heslop, codenamed Xavier, was one of Britain's greatest special operations agents in France, organising resistance groups to sabotage German operations from late 1942 right through to D-Day.

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