#1 – Corpus
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…
#2 – Nucleus
June 1939. Nazi Germany has occupied Czechoslovakia, the IRA is conducting a bombing campaign in Britain and the discovery of nuclear fission has made atomic research a matter of national security. When a scientist at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory is murdered, Tom Wilde is drawn into the…
#3 – Nemesis
September 1939. In southern France, Tom Wilde finds his former student Marcus Marfield imprisoned at Le Vernet after serving with the International Brigades in Spain. Wilde secures his release as Germany invades Poland, but doubts about Marfield’s loyalties follow them into the opening days of the…
#4 – Hitler’s Secret
Autumn 1941. With Britain under pressure and Nazi Germany dominant across much of Europe, an American intelligence officer recruits Tom Wilde for a mission inside the Reich. He is told to extract a secret package whose recovery could alter the course of the war. Once behind…
#5 – A Prince and a Spy
Sweden, 1942. Prince George, Duke of Kent, meets his cousin Prince Philipp of Hesse, a committed Nazi with close access to Adolf Hitler. Days later George dies when his aircraft crashes in northern Scotland, and official explanations leave unanswered questions about the purpose of his journey.…
#6 – The Man in the Bunker
Germany, late summer 1945. The Third Reich has collapsed, cities are ruined and millions of refugees, survivors and prisoners are moving through an improvised system of camps. Adolf Hitler is reported to have died in his Berlin bunker, but the absence of an identifiable body allows…
#7 – The English Führer
Autumn 1945. A Japanese submarine surfaces off the east coast of England, unloads a concealed cargo and then destroys itself. Soon afterwards, the military seals a nearby village where residents are dying from an unidentified illness. Tom Wilde is recalled from Cambridge when evidence suggests a…
#8 – A Cold Wind from Moscow
Winter, 1947. Britain’s security services fear that Soviet intelligence has penetrated the state and obtained access to atomic secrets. MI5 officer Freya Bentall asks Tom Wilde to investigate three suspects after Joseph Stalin authorises an operation intended to protect a highly placed communist agent. Wilde moves…