John Harris's The Fox from His Lair is a fictionalized version of the D-Day, the first day of Normandy invasion in June 1944. 10 officers with top secret clearances are among the missing, jeopardizing the entire invasion plan.

Assigned to trace the missing men is an American security officer, Colonel Linus Iremonger, who soon teams up with his British equivalent, Major Cuthbert Pargeter (true to their names, the two are stereotypical American and British officers). Pargeter is investigating the separate murders of two British officers, who turn out to have been British intelligence agents. The two investigations converge on an elusive figure who is disguised as an American officer currently named Fox, although he changes his name regularly. Eventually Iremonger and Pargeter determine that the elusive "Fox" is a German spy, Ebert Reinecke. On the eve of D day, they track him down to a company that is among the first wave to hit Omaha Beach. Reinecke is carrying with him critical details of the Allied plans following up the landings. (As if that were not enough, he is also carrying secrets regarding the ULTRA decoding process.) In order to prevent him from reaching the German lines, the two allies commandeer an amphibious vehicle participating in the Omaha landing and find themselves in the midst of the most severe enemy fire. They catch up with their wounded prey just as he is about to cross over into German territory.

The Fox from His Lair is fairly standard spy-thriller fare, featuring the bluff, hearty American, the mild-mannered Englishman with the heart of a lion, and the devilishly clever, resourceful Nazi. It rises above that level in its account of the landing on Normandy, capturing on paper, as Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan would later do on film, the living hell of the firstwave landing.

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