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Corpus
First published 2017
Europe, 1936. A young Englishwoman escapes surveillance in Berlin long enough to deliver documents to a Jewish scientist, but she is soon found dead with a silver syringe in her hand. In Britain, the murder of a wealthy couple with fascist sympathies draws Cambridge professor Tom Wilde into an unfamiliar world of political violence and espionage.
Wilde’s investigation links Berlin, Cambridge, Whitehall and the Spanish Civil War. As the abdication crisis weakens the British government and foreign intelligence services exploit domestic extremism, he must uncover the purpose behind the killings before a wider conspiracy reaches the state itself.
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