Disgraced Lieutenant Seagram has to take his battered old tug right on to the beach at Sword on D-Day. His task is to destroy a hidden German bunker before the first British landings and prevent the first wave of infantry from being massacred. It's a do-or-die mission, but Seagram is determined to carry it out and reclaim his honour.Duncan Harding is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting (1926-2007), who also wrote as Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. Charles Whiting volunteered for the Army aged 16 in 1943, where he saw active service in Belgium, Holland and Germany with the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment. He has over 350 books to his credit, encompassing military history, espionage, biography and action fiction and holds the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature.