Book description
It is a fact not generally known that in 1940 the prime minister
secretly arranged for Britain's entire gold reserves to be transported
through U-boat-infested waters to America, in five ships. Travis works
as a banker: he is also a Nazi spy. To uncover details of the shipment
he sets out to attract the attentions of Claire, a bank official. When
his relationship with the vulnerable Claire becomes more complicated
he ends up on the run with knowledge that could win the war for
Germany. Can Travis alert Berlin in time to sink the treasure ships?
And can Claire find the strength to kill the man she has grown to
love? In this taut thriller, Alexander Lindsay combines fact and
fiction to devastating effect.
Alexander Lindsay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. As an international
journalist he has lived and worked in the Middle East, New York, Paris,
the UK, Ireland and the Greek Islands. Based in Belfast, he covered the
Northern Ireland conflict as staff correspondent for the Sunday Express,
during which time his main claim to fame was being ignominiously blown
off the lavatory seat by an IRA bomb at his office. He sustained
moderate injuries to his head and major ones to his dignity. He has been
a newspaper and magazine editor, national newspaper theatre critic,
feature writer and magazine columnist. Some of his assignments included
flying as part of a trapeze act, doing battle as a knight of Camelot
(Sir Lackalot, the Shortest Knight of the Year) and having an ice cream
named after him; Gelato Alexander, a somewhat academic concoction of
Gorgonzola cheese and onion.
