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In late June, 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns his parents have died in an automobile crash, and Joseph's brother, Matthew, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals the parents were trying to deliver a mysterious secret document to him.

Presents a thriller set against the hellish backdrop of World War I Britain, as a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade in a London nightclub and, in a secret remote laboratory, scientists work to develop a weapon that could end the war.

During a rescue mission during World War I, Chaplain Joseph Reavley finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice, who appears to have been killed by one of his own compatriots, and vows to learn the truth behind the man's death.