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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series

A First World War battlefield hides a deadly secret – one that some are willing to kill for

Paul Mitchell is a young military historian whose life is changed forever when two men, Dr Audley and Colonel Butler of the MOD, visit him with a fragment of a German trench map – and a lot of questions. Then somebody tries to kill him. Paul, his life now in danger, agrees to go underground on a mission to solve a dangerous mystery: what really happened during the battle of the Somme in 1916? And why does somebody want to keep it secret?

Publisher Review

Thriller-writing at its most intelligent and subtle. * Daily Telegraph * Price unbeatably blends scholarship with wordliness, flattering us to bits. * Sunday Times *