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CODENAME DAGGER is the newest book from New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Kevin Maurer, author of Damn Lucky and Rock Force, and co-author of No Easy Day, American Radical, No Way Out, Hunting Che, No Hero, Lions of Kandahar, and more.

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Codename Dagger tells the extraordinary true story of First Lieutenant Jerry Sage, OSS operative, prisoner of war, spy, escape artist, and one of the founding fathers of modern Special Forces.

Captured during World War II, Sage became one of the real-life POWs who inspired Steve McQueen’s iconic “Cooler King” character in The Great Escape. The filmmakers even borrowed Sage’s famous baseball routine near the camp gate and his nickname.

Drawing on newly examined OSS files, National Archives records, Sage’s own manuscript, and extensive cooperation from his family and the OSS Society, Maurer delivers the first narrative-driven biography to fully explore the man behind the legend.

More than a war story, Codename Dagger follows Sage’s transformation from an idealistic young warrior chasing glory to a hardened survivor shaped by combat, captivity, and loss, a journey that echoes the evolution from Achilles to Odysseus.

As an OSS operative and later Special Forces leader, Sage helped build the force that would go on to serve in every major conflict from Vietnam through the Global War on Terror.

“Codename Dagger is thrilling and brilliantly written… Inspiring and unforgettable.”
— Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino

“An original James Bond, complete with cigars and martinis.”
— Kelly Kennedy

“A sneak peek behind the secret missions that saved the free world.”
— Rusty Bradley

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