December 29th 1940...It is the height of the Blitz in World War II as Hitler sends the Luftwaffe to burn the City of London to the ground.
A young WAAF officer, Peggy Lending, finds herself trapped in the City of London on this momentous night, buried in an underground cellar with an enigmatic stranger called Max...
Yet this was the Second Blitz – there had been a First Blitz in the Great War that had become almost forgotten...
London 1917...a young army officer called James Buckingham, recuperating after being severely wounded at the Battle of Delville Wood, is asked to advise the new Minister of Munitions, Winston Churchill, about the threat of a new German bomber to the City of London, the giant Gotha bomber...
After leaving hospital, Buckingham meets a beautiful music hall singer called Daisy Skellern, and soon falls in love with her. But he also gets to know Daisy’s pretty dresser, Amy Clay, an East End girl with a sad past...
A secret informer has leaked plans of the new Gotha bomber to the British, and Buckingham wonders if the informer could be a friend of his from pre-war days, Max Grek. Yet things soon go badly wrong when Buckingham begins to suspect that there might be a traitor in the very heart of the Whitehall establishment. When people start to die, Buckingham has to go on the run accused of murder, while he is hunted both by the police, and a German spy ring led by a mysterious individual code-named Herr Meistersinger...
The common connection between these two stories, which are separated by twenty three years and yet another world war, appears to be a man called Max Grek. Yet the link turns out to be even more mysterious than anyone could ever imagine...
A young WAAF officer, Peggy Lending, finds herself trapped in the City of London on this momentous night, buried in an underground cellar with an enigmatic stranger called Max...
Yet this was the Second Blitz – there had been a First Blitz in the Great War that had become almost forgotten...
London 1917...a young army officer called James Buckingham, recuperating after being severely wounded at the Battle of Delville Wood, is asked to advise the new Minister of Munitions, Winston Churchill, about the threat of a new German bomber to the City of London, the giant Gotha bomber...
After leaving hospital, Buckingham meets a beautiful music hall singer called Daisy Skellern, and soon falls in love with her. But he also gets to know Daisy’s pretty dresser, Amy Clay, an East End girl with a sad past...
A secret informer has leaked plans of the new Gotha bomber to the British, and Buckingham wonders if the informer could be a friend of his from pre-war days, Max Grek. Yet things soon go badly wrong when Buckingham begins to suspect that there might be a traitor in the very heart of the Whitehall establishment. When people start to die, Buckingham has to go on the run accused of murder, while he is hunted both by the police, and a German spy ring led by a mysterious individual code-named Herr Meistersinger...
The common connection between these two stories, which are separated by twenty three years and yet another world war, appears to be a man called Max Grek. Yet the link turns out to be even more mysterious than anyone could ever imagine...
