1. The Burning Sky
In 1935, Cal Jardine helps Jews escape Nazi Germany before a covert British group recruits him to deliver weapons to Abyssinia. He must obtain the arms in Romania, evade German agents and carry them along a dangerous route into a country threatened by Italian invasion. Jardine…
2. A Broken Land
A favour to a friend takes Cal Jardine to Barcelona as the Spanish Civil War begins. Athletes gathered for the People’s Olympiad become an improvised fighting group, joining him in the street battles and wider struggle against the military uprising. Political factionalism follows them into the…
3. A Bitter Field
In 1938, British intelligence sends Cal Jardine to Czechoslovakia to prove that Hitler intends to seize the Sudetenland. Rivalries within the secret service and the uncertain loyalty of old contacts make it difficult to distinguish allies from agents working for Germany. As European governments move towards…