Summer, 1940. Britain stands alone against the Nazi forces gathering just across the Channel. Invasion seems imminent. In those months of the Battle of Britain, with the Blitz becoming a nightly horror in the major cities, one man represents the unquenchable spirit of England. Winston Churchill, the recently appointed Prime Minister.The German leaders hatch their scheme—kill Churchill and the heart will be torn from England. Their plans reach John Standish—leader of 'The Killers'. After their tragic adventures in Paris and Warsaw (as told in To Win And To Lose) this secret group of criminals and ex-criminals again combine against the Nazis, with the vital aim of saving the Prime Minister from assassination. The trail of murder leads Standish to occupied Holland and back to bomb-torn London for the chilling climax. On the way, there is a little love. But, where Standish goes, there is always death. Bloody and bizarre!

In a dawn raid on what was supposed to be a safe house, the Gestapo had caught a band of Polish resistance fighters. Among them was a British spy named Leslie Peters. So far, the Gestapo didn't know how important their prisoner was. But as soon as his true identity was revealed, they would give him up to their most proficient torturers and he would sing like a bird ... placing the lives of all the S.O.E. operatives in the country at risk.So John Standish was ordered to rescue Peters ... or eliminate him. If possible, Standish's boss, Tristram Bowditch, wanted the spy back in one piece. They were, after all, old school chums. But when they finally met, Standish realised there was something about the man that he just couldn't trust. Was he everything he claimed to be? Or could he just possibly be a double agent who had sold his own country out to the enemy?In To Win and To Lose, the action ranges from London to Dunkirk, from Paris to Warsaw. When 'The...