In England a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death. On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier in a concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties and Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war.
For fans of Robert Harris.