Eighteen year old Phil was looking forward to a trip of a lifetime, a trip to Europe, hitchhiking around as it was cheaper than the train, but after an accident when he crashed his fathers car, he now has to pay the excess on the repair, and the trip is beginning to look more and more unlikely to go ahead. After a Sunday dinner with his parents and grandmother, a suggestion is made that Phil likes the sound of, his grandmother wants him to be a driver for her on a trip to Europe, visiting Paris and Berlin and other places that she remembers from before the war when her husband used to be a diplomat. As you progress further into the book the timeline goes between 1979 with Phil and his grandmother and the 1930s with Emma as a young Diplomat's wife, the pre war years, spies and affairs taking centre stage. Back to 1979 and Emma and Phil continue their journey to places that have Phil wondering what he is doing and more importantly what was his grandmother up to. Are the people he meets up with in bars who they pretend to be? Will he have his head turned by a pretty head? Soon a perilous journey takes place across many towns and the KĢB is also taking interest in them too. As lives are lost and they are unsure who to trust, they also must flee to save their own lives. A story of spies, secrets and families spread between the 1930s and 1979, a historical thriller that I enjoyed reading probably more than I thought I would. I especially liked the 1979 storyline and I think that the front cover accurately depicts Emma as a young woman in the 1930s.