Blackest of Lies

History records that Lord Kitchener was lost when HMS Hampshire struck a mine off the Orkney coast on 5 June 1916. But history does not always tell the whole story.

As Britain fights for survival during the darkest years of the First World War, intelligence officer Lieutenant Christophe Hubert and Scotland Yard detective Anne Banfield find themselves drawn into an investigation that reaches from the corridors of Whitehall to the storm-lashed waters of the North Sea.

Official reports speak of ...