A Gathering of Saints

A savage killer. A military conspiracy. A devastating secretLondon, 1940: the Blitz has begun, and Hitler's Luftwaffe rains down terror.

Against this apocalyptic backdrop, Detective Inspector Morris Black pursues a lone psychopath who stalks and kills his victims with methodical precision.Tracking the killer from corpse to corpse, Black uncovers a chilling pattern: each is murdered at the site of a German raid - hours before the bombing occurs.Now, Black is plunged into a maze of international intrigue in which a ruthless Gestapo spy, a beautiful American agent, and the British high command race to expose the murderer.

At stake is a secret Britain will keep from the Nazis at any cost - a military code - that is about to emerge in the perverse logic and bloody crimes of the killer.A riveting novel drawn from shattering true events in the dawn of World War II, perfect for fans of Robert Harris, Frederick Forsyth and Rory ClementsPraise for Paul Christopher'draws tension with the skill of a surgeon' New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly'Hyde's storytelling is pure genius' Daily Press'A superior piece of work' Houston Chronicle'The procedural elements are perfect Readers who relish the raw truth of human, and inhuman, history will find here what they are looking for' Publishers Weekly