In the small hours of the twenty-fifth of September, a hotel-keeper at Toulon shakes his wife awake, and soon all France is in mourning over a catastrophe. Into the aftermath comes a young American, Dan, enlisted by a woman whose father has perfected a great invention that rival powers are desperate to own.
A brisk pre-war espionage thriller from the editor of the famous Home Book of Verse, full of dreadnought-era anxieties. Download the free EPUB.