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In 1942 Claude Dansey, deputy mind of MI6, infiltrated Henri Déricourt, double agent extraordinaire, into the rival English wartime magic formula service, SOE. The ensuing path of destruction and betrayal resulted in the loss of over 500 United kingdom and French agents. Recruited as the man SOE so desperately needed, Déricourt penetrated the heart and soul of PROSPER, SOE's biggest network in France. At the same time he renewed contact with Karl Boemelburg, mind of German counter-espionage in Paris. Every movement, code and dispatch from the United kingdom agents was made known to Boemelburg; Déricourt offered him everything. His treachery finally resulted in the disastrous fall season of the PROSPER network, and the arrest of almost one thousand men and women, a huge selection of whom passed away in attention camps. Was it patriotism that drove Dansey, or was the Déricourt plan basically part of the secret warfare between MI6 and SOE, a warfare where Dansey held all the weaponry? All the King's Men is the remarkable account on one of the most ruthless secret businesses of the Second World War.
