As Hitler's influence spreads across Europe, the future of Britain is at stake ... It is late summer 1934 when retired MI6 agent John Repton's body is found near Wyndham Hall in the Cotswolds. Repton was killed while investigating the Wyndham family's ties to fascist sympathisers, and Elena Standish is assigned to discover if one of them resorted to murder ... The fifth novel featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish.