It is 1941 and the world is at war. With his call to arms, Winston Churchill forms the Special Operations Executive. Their aim: to operate behind enemy lines and organise the Resistance against the German war machine. Yet lives begin to be lost as the Nazi grip on Occupied France tightens and an experimental RAF plane crashes in Northern France, her crew lost and valuable secrets now in German hands. The outlook is bleak for the Allies. With time running out, SOE turns to one man whose life once consisted of danger, escapes, subterfuge and deception. A man the world thought had died long ago. The Handcuff King. Harry Houdini.

Upon Houdini’s arrival in France he is hunted by a ferocious Gestapo agent desperate for revenge whilst in London, a former friend and journalist digs into his past, convinced that the magician faked his own death. A thrilling mixture of fact and fiction, magic and mystery as some of World War II’s greatest secrets are revealed for the first time in the Houdini Files…