As Europe see-saws between war and peace, Charles Speedicut finds himself involved in a seriesof clandestine missions for both the British SecretIntelligence Service and the equally secretive Brotherhoodof the Sons of Thunder. From the concentration camp atDachau, where Book 5 of The Speedicut Memoirs opens, via Whitehall, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bavaria, Switzerland and France, Speedicut is involved in plots to frustrate the British government'spolicy of appeasement, assassinate Hitler, obtain an ENIGMAmachine and - as German tanks roll through the Low Countriesinto France - to rescue vitally important stocks of goldand diamonds, France's leading scientists and theworld's entire stock of 'heavy water'."I attribute the failure of appeasement to theinterference of Charles Speedicut. In consequence, I blame him for the Second World War"The Rt Hon Neville Chamberlain"Speedicut will be the death of me, unlessI eliminate him first - as I intend to."SS-Obergruppenführer und General der PolizeiReinhard Heydrich