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294 pages ; 24 cm "London 1909: The British Empire spans the globe, seen as an invulnerable imperial power. But Captain Vernon Kell, head of counter-intelligence at the War Office, knows better. In Russia, there is revolution in the wind; in Germany, an arms race; and in London, the streets are alive with foreign agents provocateur. Kell wants to set up a Secret Service, an agency with a mandate to act domestically and abroad to protect the Empire, but to convince his political masters he needs proof of a threat. To find that proof, he needs an agent he can trust who is smart, ruthless, and able to blend in with the hoi polloi. The playing fields of Eton may produce good army and naval officers, but not men who can work undercover in a munitions factory that appears to be leaking secrets to the Germans. As it happens, the man Kell needs is Wiggins. Trained as a child by Kell's old friend Sherlock Holmes--who organized a gang of urchin investigators known at 221B as the Baker Street Irregulars--Wiggins is a survivor: an ex-soldier with an talent for deduction perhaps second only to the Great Detective, as well as a cunning street fighter. "The best," says Holmes. But Wiggins turns d

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Author

Lyle, H. B., author

Publisher

New York: Quercus

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681440262

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mystery, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (618 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14