Alex Wexford- A Detective Story Vol 4

<p><strong>THE ICE QUEEN'S GAMBIT (1947)</strong></p><p>London has survived the Blitz but peace has not brought rest. In the derelict icehouses of the East End Dr. Eleanor Graves and intelligence officer Alec Wexford uncover a chilling truth: <strong>Nazi scientists are being smuggled into Britain.</strong></p><p>The architect of the operation is <strong>Ilse Brandt</strong> a former SS interrogator now aligned with the Soviets-calculating brilliant and intent on shaping the <em>next</em> war before the ashes of the last have settled.</p><p>America wants the scientists for rockets.<br>The Soviets want them for empire.<br>Britain wants relevance.</p><p>But Ilse Brandt wants <strong>control.</strong></p><p>To stop her Wexford and Graves must decide whether morality can survive when survival itself becomes strategy.</p><p><strong>THE GHOST OF PRAGUE (1943)</strong></p><p>Before Ilse Brandt.<br>Before the Cold War began.<br>There was the ghost.</p><p>During the war Wexford receives a message from <strong>Henry Mercer</strong> a comrade he watched die in the trenches in 1917. But Mercer lives-reborn as an informant moving through the neutral shadows of Lisbon holding knowledge that could alter Allied plans.</p><p>To confront Mercer Wexford must confront himself - and the truth buried in mud smoke and guilt.</p><p>Some ghosts are not haunting us.<br>They are waiting to be acknowledged.</p>