80 years on the British government’s embargo on the disclosure of these historical events has finally been lifted.At the Foreign Office in the blacked-out London of 1940, Holmes and Watson are commissioned to travel to Berlin to negotiate a prisoner-of-war swap. But once in the German capital, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels demands, as the price for any prisoner release, that they work with the Berlin police to capture a serial killer who is stalking the city’s railway network.But is Holmes being entirely honest with Watson about why the Foreign Office is Moreallowing them to conduct this investigation? And what else might Holmes’s investigation of the German railway network uncover? And what can be done to persuade the United States to join the British side in the war?

An account of real events in London, Berlin, and Moscow in the years 1940 and 1941 which shaped history, and which still shape the present.

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