The Wurtenberg Affair
by David Meaton
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Pub Date 28 Nov 2023 | Archive Date 14 Dec 2023
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Description
A fast-moving tale of espionage, crime and murder on the home front during the First World War.
Wesley is the middle of six brothers born to a poor mining family in a South Wales pit village. After following his three elder brothers and father into the mine straight from the village school, Wesley immediately feels as though he will be trapped in hard and dangerous graft for the rest of his life and is determined to break free from the poor health, poverty and lack of opportunity he sees all around him. His determination sees him leave the pit and qualify for admission to the South Wales constabulary just before the start of the Great War.
Fast paced and thrilling, The Wurtenberg Affair charts Wesley’s involvement in a plot to uncover deeply embedded German spies in Welsh ports and his rise through the newly formed secret security police during the First World War.
A Note From the Publisher
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781916668997 |
| PRICE | £4.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 360 |
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Featured Reviews
A D, Reviewer
Great historical read to see the transition from a boy from South Wales to the war and the rise in ranks.
Robin P, Reviewer
The Great War (as it was then called) continues to take the lives of umpteen thousands of young men on the battlefields. On the home front a German spy ring has infiltrated the Welsh dockyards and any further loss of men and supplies must be stopped.
This is a long, ingenious thriller, written with real brilliance. There's an evocative sense of time and place, and characters glowing with honour, courage and fortitude, up against some devilishly evil villains seeking death and destruction.
Wesley Morgan walks tall through the darkness and violence with all the attributes of a hero, but there's also love, eroticism and grief, in this magnificent novel.
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