Publisher's Synopsis
As a young naval officer, King George V kept a mistress in Portsmouth. In the spring of 1914 an American anarchist is likely to be extradited to Paris for burning down a police station. What possible connection could there be? Only the claim he is the King's son - and heir to the throne. With the King about to pay a diplomatically vital visit to Paris, this is hardly something to be investigated in public. So Secret Service agents Matthew Ranklin and Conall O'Gilroy take it on - with the most honourable intentions, of course. The person who dumped a key witness in the Thames seems less honourable however. As Ranklin and O'Gilroy find, there is no smoke without, in the end, gunfire.
