The irregular : a different class of spy
Lyle, H. B.2017
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As a boy, he spied for Sherlock Holmes. As a man, he must save the Empire. London 1909: The British Empire seems invulnerable. But Captain Vernon Kell, head of counter-intelligence at the War Office, knows better. In Russia, revolution; in Germany, an arms race; in London, the streets are alive with foreign terrorists. Kell wants to set up a Secret Service, but to convince his political masters he needs proof of a threat - and to find that, he needs an agent he can trust. The playing fields of Eton may produce good officers, but not men who can work undercover in a munitions factory that appears to be leaking secrets to the Germans. Kell needs Wiggins. Trained as a child by Kell's old friend Sherlock Holmes, Wiggins is an ex-soldier with an expert line in deduction and the cunning of a born street fighter.
Main title:
The irregular : a different class of spy / H.B. Lyle.
Author:
Lyle, H. B., author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2017.
Collation:
280 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473655348 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
1859016
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