This book is quite the page-turner as it rapidly moves back and forth from a present day family home in the English countryside to a nuclear submarine deep in the North Atlantic at the height of the Cold War.
Family secrets abound, mixed with a healthy dose of US Navy classified information and a sprinkling of MI5 Official Secrets Act.
Sam Bowen, an American Historian, comes to interview Retired US Navy Lieutenant Bill Guth at his home in England. Bowen is trying to investigate a possible murder and a classified incident ( a near-miss nuclear Armageddon ) that occurred on board the sub on which Guth served in 1983. Bowen is found murdered hours later. There is a long list of possible suspects, each with different motives. Someone is clearly so unwilling to let the past be exposed that before long there is another murder. The ensuing investigations uncover
some shocking coincidences.
Family secrets abound, mixed with a healthy dose of US Navy classified information and a sprinkling of MI5 Official Secrets Act.
Sam Bowen, an American Historian, comes to interview Retired US Navy Lieutenant Bill Guth at his home in England. Bowen is trying to investigate a possible murder and a classified incident ( a near-miss nuclear Armageddon ) that occurred on board the sub on which Guth served in 1983. Bowen is found murdered hours later. There is a long list of possible suspects, each with different motives. Someone is clearly so unwilling to let the past be exposed that before long there is another murder. The ensuing investigations uncover
some shocking coincidences.