One of the best-kept secrets of World War II provides Bernard Glemser with a striking and significant event on which to base this story of commando cunning.  Paul Martin, a teenage French boy, watched the activities of his Nazi conquerors with puzzled interest as they built a strange electronic device on the Normandy coast a few miles above Le Havre.  The Bowl was like nothing he had ever seen before, and he dutifully reported it to the French Underground.

Allied Headquarters in London listened eagerly as the young man's description crackled across the air from secret French transmitters, and Paul soon found himself "wanted" by the Germans for espionage and by the British for vital information that only he could give.  His harrowing escape from Europe on a French fishing scow and a British torpedo boat, his meeting with Allied generals in England and Paul's landing in France with commandos who battled for possession of an early German radar installation, make this an exciting re-creation of those tense days of World War II when the fate of the world hung in the balance.

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