Having read Rory Clement's historical thrillers set in Tudor times I wondered if this book set in 1939 would be as good . It is ! Set just before the outbreak of World War Two this is an exciting thriller , full of sinuous threads which coil and unravel around Professor Tom Wilde , a university Don from Cambridge .
While on holiday in France a stranger comes to tell him that Marcus Mayfield is being held prisoner in a camp near the Pyrenees . Marcus had been a brilliant student of his two years ago till he left to fight for the Spanish during their Civil War . Nobody had heard from him since . Tom manages to get him released and takes him home to heal from his ordeal . By now the Germans are invading Poland . War in Europe is inevitable .
Back in England it seems that anyone who has anything to do with Marfield is coming to an untimely end . Slowly but surely Tom is being caught up in an international conspiracy , but why ?
While on holiday in France a stranger comes to tell him that Marcus Mayfield is being held prisoner in a camp near the Pyrenees . Marcus had been a brilliant student of his two years ago till he left to fight for the Spanish during their Civil War . Nobody had heard from him since . Tom manages to get him released and takes him home to heal from his ordeal . By now the Germans are invading Poland . War in Europe is inevitable .
Back in England it seems that anyone who has anything to do with Marfield is coming to an untimely end . Slowly but surely Tom is being caught up in an international conspiracy , but why ?