- His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle.He is Hitler"s prize undercover agent - a cold and professional killer.It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out... and then The Needle does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Britain to a waiting U-Boat. But he hasn"t planned for a storm-battered island, and the remarkable young woman who lives there...