A book is however inside print, when it was reissued withwithin Future York by Berkley Books in 2000 with ISBN 0425177181

A movie star Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall.

When you took World War II a German Fallschirmjäger Officer, Colonel Steiner (Caine), intervenes as SS officers round higher Jews at a railroad terminal. He is afterwards court-martialled. Like than face certain demise, Steiner & his men come sent to the penal colony in the Channel Islands where their numbers come reduced when manning torpedo boats against British channel convoys. It is so offered the risk to redeem themselves by accepting an assignment to travel to Engl& and capture Winston Churchill. It is aided by the member of the IRA, Liam Devlin (Sutherland).

A project is an invention of Himmler, inspired per daring delivery of Germanys' ally Benito Mussolini by German special forces. Himmler's underlying intention notwithstanding, is to discredit Admiral Whilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr (German military intelligence). What Canaris (Anthony Quayle) takes as a joke is demonstrated to exist as executable by Gap. Radl (Duvall).

Cast
Michael Caine .... Gap. Kurt Steiner Donald Sutherland .... Liam Devlin Robert Duvall .... Gap. Max Radl Jenny Agutter .... Mollie Prior Donald Pleasence .... Heinrich Himmler Anthony Quayle .... Adm. Canaris Jean Marsh .... Joanna Grey Sven-Bertil Taube .... Capt. von Neustadt John Standing .... Father Verecker Judy Geeson .... Pamela Treat Williams .... Capt. Clark Larry Hagman .... Gap. Pitts