This is not a book about headquarters administration, it is about individual stories. This book names the names of those people and corporations who made fortunes matching wits with the men and women of Customs and Excise.

He tells the story with wit that throws the tragedy and inhumanity of war into glaring relief. The 1980 edition is here augmented with a scene-setting foreword and a second section of photographs of 418 Squadron of the Canadian Air Force.