The French secret service, particularly its covert operations directorate (the " Action Service"), is remarkably effective in infiltrating the terrorist organisation with their own informants, allowing them to capture and interrogate the OAS operations commander, Antoine Argoud. Following the apprehension of Bastien-Thiry and various other conspirators, the French security forces wage a short but extremely vicious "underground" war with the terrorists of the OAS, a militant right-wing group who believe de Gaulle to be a traitor to France after his grant of independence to Algeria. The book begins in 1962 with the (historical) failed attempt on de Gaulle's life plotted by, among others, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart: Operation Charlotte Corday. Plot summary Part One: Anatomy of a Plot
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