This non-fiction novel is a page-turner. Well researched, and developing the characters so that you think you know them, this book relates the story of "The man who never was", a scheme developed by British spies, including Ian Fleming, a Jewish nobleman and others to hoodwink the Germans into believing that the Allies would not invade Europe at Sicily. Using a dead body, for which they had developed a life to the most minute detail, they led the Germans to believe their ruse, so that even Hitler approved a defense strategy that did not include Sicily. Thousands of Allied lives were saved.